Re: listening, staying on target
- From: "Stephanie" <IwishICould@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:33:00 -0500
<Mary_Gordon@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm mom of three, and what you are describing seems like pretty normal
> behaviour for a three year old. I'm wondering if your expectations are
> a bit out of whack.
>
> Heck, I still have problems with my kids (now 14, 12 and 8) wandering
> off task -
I'm 37, and *I* still do this. I walk from the living room to the bedroom,
get to the bedroom and think "What did I come in here for?" And for me, the
living room and the bedroom are separated by a very short hallway.
> i.e. I send one up to put on a pair of socks so we can go
> out shopping, he sees his guitar, starts strumming, and totally forgets
> about the socks until I holler up the stairs to see where he went, or
> another gets dispatched to brush their teeth, and 20 minutes later I go
> in the bathroom and they are playing with the soap, or a bath toy and
> no teeth have been brushed....or they start in on the homework, take a
> break for a snack and wander off to play a video game and forget to go
> back until I remind them.
>
> My major job as a mom is still herding the goats!
>
> M.
>
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