My son is giving me headaches.

Wow 30 minutes showers, that was never allowed when I was growing up. You can always make a game out of it and at the end of the week he get a prize...extra 30 minutes of play or whatever.

you should take him to the doctors and have him checked out he may have learning difficulties or somthing

Well he's only 7 years old. Lots of children are like that - I take ages when I'm eating and 30 minutes in the shower would not be that unusual for me either! I don't think it will help if you keep at him to hurry up. I mean you don't want to make him frustrated or feel that he's not doing well enough do you? Maybe he needs a bit of help with his homework - I have to say my daughter would have taken all night with her homework if I had left it up to her to do on her own. Kids tend to fall into two categories when it comes to homework - either they race through it to get it over and done with as quick as possible or else they would rather do anything than sit and actually get the thing done! I don't think it's anything to worry about - he sounds like a perfectly normal 7 year old to me.

Your Son is only 7 years old, he's not an adult.. He needs to be treated like a child because he is one.. Why rush your child to eat and do his home work and take a bath? I am 28 years old and it takes me awhile to eat my food, i don't scarf it down because i don't want to get sick... I take 20 minutes showers I want to make sure I am clean... When I was in high school it took me awhile to do my home work too, a reason being is because I was a slow learner.. Now look at me today I am doing good and not so slow.. Maybe that's why your son is slow and there is nothing wrong with it what so ever.. He just needs time to do things.. Never tell a child to speed up on things because that just makes them rush things and they get frustrated even more than what they are... Give him time and don't stress over it.. Remember he is only 7 not 18...

Don't you just love the little darlings they try your patience and get on your last nerve. LOL. It's amazing what a parent has to go through just to get them raised without popping thier cute litle heads off. LOL. May I suggest setting a timer for him give him anhour to do certain things 2 hours to do other things and then if he gets it done in time give him a reward of some kind?

Hi, I am a mother of a one-year-old boy. Although he's still little, I realize that sometimes I set high expectation on him and it is totally unfare for him. I get frustrated sometimes when he doesn't do what he's told. One thing I've found out though is that when I take time to do stuff with him and guide him through, the results of things just turn out wonderfully. Every kid is different, I think no one knows your child better than you, Mom! God bless :)

My wife is fed up with raising the so called son. He is exactly like yours but he is not 7 but 14. But from 5th year onwards he is doing this because he is having aspergus syndrome, always thinking of high things, calculating mentally and he is in his own world. Everything has to be concretized for people suffering from aspergus. But when there is no school, they will be active, because they get to see computer and tv for couple of hours. Never mind, try to keep some incentives for doing on time, taking less time to perform. They will be alright after some years.

Hi, Well it is something which i guess every parents think about their kid. Wehn i was young i remember that my mom and dad use to tell me that u need to do lot of things in life and u r ruuning out of time. Actually parents dont realize that the kid is small and often we dont understand what a kid is going through. Kids always create an environment within them and they enjoy the stuffs doing slowly sometimes. So i think give your kid ample time to grow up. Nothing is running out. he is too small to understand you or the pace of this world. So let nature make him understand that he needs to speed up.. and he will after a course of time. Cheers, Tutul

I hear ya there! My 6 year old daughter is the same way and it drives me bonkers!!! The problem is she knows that it bothers me so much and that is why she does it... I found a thing that works for me , really it just bothers her more so now.. when she gets home from school i make her sit right down at the table and do her homework for that day , i let her have her afterschool snack at this time as well, i tell her if hse wants to go to her friends house and play for an hour she has 15 minutes to finish her homework ( really she has all the time in the world but this way here she focus on her homework and not anything else dilly dallying) usually it takes baout 20-30 minutes but thats because i dont have her rush we sit and discuss it...etc etc... then after her homework i let her go out as promised, when she comes in for dinner as we sit and eat i let her know let if she doesnt goof off while we eat and she eats in a good time like me then that will give her more after dinner play time.. I tell her if i have to rush her and she plays around then she doesnt get any dessert and then she wont be able to watch her favortie tv show... showers i dont have to worry about shes gets in and does all the washing up herself i just check in on her and usually she wants out before i tell her times up... There are alot of things that my daughter likes to do daily and i simply just tell her she wont have time to do the things she wants to do if she doesnt fisnh in a good time the things she "has" to do... i hope that you find some sort of system that works for you and your son, because i know that it can be pretty stressful... GOOD LUCK

Give him a prize if he beats a timer. My son is slow too if I don't pay attention to him. He's 9 now but will still be a slow poke if I let him. my 7 year old is better with everything but school work. It bores him so you'd think he'd want to get it done and over with but nah. He's just pokey as can be!

just focus to your son enjoy every moment you spend with him... make your moment happy