My kids gave me the run around today, and I just thought I'd ask how people handle hyperspeed on here... like when the kid is clawing after two or three subjects at once and you can't even find enough time to breathe, let alone find the subway tokens and get the mits in your pocket.... that.
Do you ask them to slow down? Ask them to do only one thing at a time? Ask them to wait while you do something? Let them run you ragged? Pray to the flying spaghetti monster?
I really like it when they're engaged like that... but the split attention on my part can get dangerous at times (like on the subway)
Thanks,
-Mich
Ok, can't help saying it...
(It started when we stopped to read a Magic Treehouse book at a coffee shop. We got an apple and some honeyballs and drinks. But the apple was bruised, so I had to draw diagrams showing how apples bruise and the cells break, and then it drys out and shrinks, but I was using a highlighter on a napkin, so we also discussed how dyes differ from pigments, also capillary action, reflection, and arithmetic (because the appleseeds went and started multiplying at us when we opened a napkin looking for more space. There was just NOT enough time to drink enough coffee for that.
And this was NOT in sequence, it was very much in parallel. And after that it went on at the same pace for 6 hours.)
