Our family has been rushing our 5-year-old through morning routines for months and we all hate it but we can't figure out how to honor his need to move slowly without making everyone late. We've tried everything - earlier bedtimes, laying out clothes, timers - but he still lives in a completely different time universe than school schedules demand.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family is trapped between respecting their child's organic relationship with time and meeting the rigid demands of institutional schedules.
“Where Are You with Children and time — how they experience it?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.