Bean is pokey. When she organizes her toys she sings to them and separates them into layers of how much she loves them. A quick toy clean up can take 15 minutes. When she eats her Cheerios in the morning, she eats them one by one and then slowly spoons the remaining milk into her mouth until she can't get anymore with her spoon. Breakfast can drag on for 20 min.
So getting up and dressed and downstairs has become a place of much strain for us lately. After many months of yelling, crying, and running late to school I decided to ask for her help with our time management. She suggested we make a list... Bean loves a list but can't yet read so we talked about what our morning to do list could look like in pictures. I illustrated the routine that she came up with. She decorated and helped color it in.
This morning was a success. She still moves a little slower than I'd like, but we can rely on the list to show us the next step instead of arguing the entire morning. Fingers crossed that the list keeps working for us...
