My co-parent and I are struggling because our 10-year-old has learned to exploit our different relationships with time - she dawdles with me knowing I'll wait but rushes frantically with him because he gets impatient. We're accidentally teaching her to manipulate time dynamics instead of developing her own healthy relationship with it.
More people experience this than they realize.
A child is learning to navigate adult time anxieties rather than developing her own authentic relationship with temporal boundaries.
“Where Are You with Children and time — how they experience it?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.