My daughter is a slow-poke!

they say my son is slow poke for he is 2 and all he can say is mama and didi. i dont care i still appreciate what he does for he is a very intelligent boy. i think we parents would have to think that we cant win everything. your child who is academically above avarage that is really cool to hear. why not try to wake her up early and not rushing her so she can get ready ahead of time. i think most girls are really slow. if you are fast then maybe she will out grow her slowness. try to let her get ready with much more time so she can be dressed early.

I think it is an age thing, albeit an age thing that could continue for years! I have 3 sons, and 2 of them are so very slow. The oldest, who is almost 9 now, is the worst on a regular basis. He has almost always been that way. It's simply "his way". It stresses me out to no end as well, because I feel as though there's nothing I can do to help him to hurry up. Granted, I have come up with 2 very effective methods in my household for getting dressed.... 1) when getting dressed to go out (especially in the winter, when extra layers are needed), I have the "slower" children start getting ready a few minutes before the others do. It's taken practice to figure out the timing, but I've got it down pretty good this season, and everyone is ready to go around the same time. 2) when getting dressed in the morning on school days, there is a house rule. You MUST be dressed and downstairs to eat your breakfast by 8am. If you are even one minute late, you go to bed 30 minutes earlier that night. If you are 5 minutes late, 1 hr earlier to bed, 10 minutes late, 1 1/2 hrs earlier to bed, etc. It took a few weeks of FOLLOWING THROUGH on the earlier bedtime, but it seems to work well now. :) (and the consequences are rather logical too... if you are too tired to get ready on time, you obviously need more sleep). Good luck with working on your patience with your daughter's "slowpokishness" ;). I'd send you some of mine, but I need all that I can get! lmao!

i'm kind of like your daughter. i always wait for the last minute to do someting. i don't know why i have been like this, maybe it's in my genes. i am trying to improve myself by waking up early in the morning and trying to exercise and build some muscles maybe this will help me get rid of the slow-poke attitude. i think to get rid of this attitude of being a slow-poke is to exercise a lot. you should tell your daughter to start exercising because the more she moves her body, the more she can avoid being a slowpoke.

I think your daughter is acting like most six year old would act if they do not like what they are doing... my niece is quite the same... slow when going to school but fast when she knows that we are going to the mall... it is much too early to determine if she is destined to be a late to everything... she just needs more positive encouragement...

Shes not one to "open her mouth and put her foot in it," and she "looks before she leaps". Shes a Great little girl and I think you should appreciate her for what she is, rather than trying to change her. There are many ways to accepting her. Try giving her the time it takes to accomplish a task, and reward her for doing it Right.Don't try to make it a competition. Kids should be taught to work together.There's very little percentage to getting a task done quickly. The big payback is from getting the task done properly. Teach her to be thorough not Quick!She will learn to be on time if you help her to judge the time it takes to get there On Time!

Been there... I have two who were slow. I did what some of the others suggest (giving more time). It helped a little bit, so I added in getting "pre-ready." We would get things ready the night before, so all they had to do was the very basics. They did not have to worry about picking out clothing, putting toothpaste on the toothbrush, etc. All of this was laid out the night before (including getting things packed for our next day... backpack in the car, etc.) and eliminated many steps that would/could slow a kid down. Their places were set at the table, as well... Every little thing helps a child. Sometimes you have to look at it from a different perspective. As it turns out, it wasn't that my kids were so slow (as I had thought), it was the thought processes that slowed them down. They were feeling overwhelmed with so much to do in such a short time. We solved it with the "pre-ready" routine as part of our bedtime. I hope this helps.