3. He tends to "daydream". He gets lost in his own thoughts, and misses what's going on around him. He sometimes gets lost going from one class to another.
I seem to have a daydreamer. ds5 seems to get stuck in the bathroom. If I let him be and don't make a game out of getting him out of there, he will be in there for AN HOUR! He doesn't take an hour actually using the toilet - it's more that he then daydreams instead of washing his hands or flushing the toilet. I made a numbered list of the steps he needs to complete so that is our newest attempt - he does look at the list when I ask him what he needs to do next. My dh isn't sympathetic to the situation at all. He sets the timer and if ds doesn't finish in time, he has a time-out or at bedtime, he reduces the number of books that are read to him. This seemed to work in the beginning but because ds hates to lose books but now he still loses the books because he can't/won't "snap out of it." I can't stand to see him not be read to at night. It seems that whatever we try works in the beginning because of the novelty but then that wears off. I also use a trigger word "volkswagon" as a little game - he knows it means "snap out of it" but it's a nice way of saying it. I keep thinking that he is so smart so he should be able to focus on this long enough to complete it but we can't seem to get past it. He is such a slowpoke that we rarely attempt to go anywhere before preschool which starts at 12:30. Any suggestions? I keep telling my dh that there is some reason he is doing this beyond just bad behavior but I have no idea what to do about it.
