What do you do to make your kid move a little faster?

my youngest daughter was like that and still is sort of like that (but she is getting better). what we did was just encouraged her to be faster. how about setting an egg timer and making it a sort of game (kids love games!) and if he beats the timer, he gets a treat (a smartie or he can save up til the end of the week and hit the dollar store - make coupons even and he can use them as money??!!)

Have you taken him to the doctor to see if maybe he might be autistic? This sounds like he might have a small case.. Alot of people don't understand autism very well. They can be completly normal but with some minor flaws like not comprehending well (writing) and responsivness, not very social etc.. I would have him checked out.. If that's not the case try getting him movtivated with something that he likes. My children are small so what they want is how i get them moving. lol.

My mom used to compare my sister and I. I was the faster one and she was the slower one. She eats very slowly and takes a very long time to finish her food. She still takes a long time now. We joked about it. She recently gave birth to a baby boy and said that she can no longer taker her own sweet time to eat her food as she has to attend to her baby. We told her 5 minutes is all she could afford. She grew up normally. Although sometimes she's a bit slow in getting jokes, she's getting better. She's smart. I seldom see her study for exams. She studies at the last minute, usually with eyes closed (sleeping). But she always manages to scrape through her exams. I study day and night before I can do well at school. She seems to be able to grasp what has been taught faster and retain information much longer than me. I got short term memory. We may not know how our brain works. Your kid may be digesting all the information he is receiving and retaining all the important information for later use. Maybe that's why he is slower. Who knows?

hi kate..everyday, My husband and I have the same dilemma with our 9 year old. He too eats slow, sometimes just a few food on his plate and it will be finished after an hour or so..We constantly remind him to chew while he's staring into nothingness..That's why we don't allow him to watch tv while eating, because that would make him eat even slower..It seems he doesn't get it, even though we always tell him to eat faster so he could do something else afterwards.. That goes the same with studying his lessons and writing his assignments..I sometimes get frustrated too and ends up scolding him for being too slow.. It isn't part of his learning disability, but most times, he's so lazy to do his lessons at home.. So, what I did was, we pretended.. I am the teacher and he is my student...In that way, he cannot tell me he's tired or just plain lazy or doesn't wanna do it, because I know for a fact that he is so active in school and participates a lot and so fast in doing things... try it and hope it helps....

Check out autismhelp.info and autismvictoria.org :)

Please note my comment above. i just wanted to add there are checklists for ASD (Autism Spectrun Disorder) online. If you are interested in looking into it, i'll find you a link. Good luck.

be patient. :) Really, he is just slow. or then, maybe you are really fast. If you are worried you could have him tested, but you said yourself that he is a normal child. so probably, just slow. We dont all work on the same speed you know. I am for example really slow in some things like eating (everybdy is finished before I have started really)!! And I have always been like that. I am not stupid and my brain does not work slow. I am also not lazy and I can get a huge amount of work done in very little time. just somethings... slow.