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Why rushing children often backfires

My 6-year-old moves so slowly in the morning that I started waking him up 30 minutes earlier but now he just moves slowly for 30 more minutes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent is trying to solve a relational problem with a mechanical solution, not understanding that the child may be responding to pressure by asserting control.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Children and time — how they experience it?”

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