Anyone else's kids slow as molasses getting ready in he morning??

OMG it's like trying to get a sloth out the door!
This morning she finishes breakfast and is just sitting there watching her tablet. I say- you have to go get dressed, come on.

She goes in the bedroom, puts on pants, walks out topless, comes in to my room where I'm getting dressed, tells me a 5 minute story while topless, then I have to say, ok, go put a shirt on please.

Goes and puts the shirt on. Starts combing her hair, bytches that it's too poofy, then bytches that one side is sticking up, then tries a ponytail, then tries a headband, then sulks that her hair looks terrible.

DH is now fully ready to take her to the bus stop, coat on, standing by the door and she's still sock and shoe-less.
I tell her to go put socks and shoes on and as I pass her in the hall she is grabbing for my hand- like to delay things even longer.
I finally snapped and she got an attitude and sulked.
Then it's the coat and gloves and hat. I have no idea how they made it to the bus stop on time.

I swear, something that should take 5 minutes ends up turning into a half an hour ordeal!

Message edited 2/28/2019 9:10:52 AM.

Anyone else's kids slow as molasses getting ready in he morning??

oh yeah... this is my life anytime we try to leave the house!!!! both my boys are such homebodies- even when we're going to do something fun they act like we're taking them to a doctors appointment for shots or something!! LOL and i'm always just like "why do you guys act like you've never left the house before?? you know what you need to do" very annoying!! and mine are both boys... so i can't imagine adding the hair thing in with a girl!! God bless!! HAHAHA
and i don't even want to start on bedtime!! LOL

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This is my DD every single school morning.

She is slow getting dressed, slow brushing her hair, slow eating, slow brushing her teeth. I no longer have any patience for it. If I talk calmly to her and ask her to hurry up - it does nothing. If I scream at her to hurry up - it does nothing. I am out of options.

She really is the slowest eater on the face of the planet. When we don't have to go anywhere - fine, eat as slow as you want. But when we have places to go - hurry the F up!

Anyone else's kids slow as molasses getting ready in he morning??

I just got my first grader an alarm clock. She is not great about getting up rather than just turning it off but it still helps. If she comes right down she has a little time to relax before getting ready but my rule is, if I have to go upstairs to get her up I pick out her clothes and bring them downstairs. Goodness knows if both girls go upstairs to get dressed on their own a half hour can pass and they're still in pjs or naked, the mattresses are hanging half off the beds, jewelry is strewn across the floor, etc.

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You just described my morning.
My boys watch the same Nick shows all the time. Have seen the same exact episodes and still can't take their eyes off the TV.
My son will stand by the bathroom door holding his clothes to change into but doesn't look away from the TV.
I'm like... Mas, you dressed yet? Mas, dressed? Didn't you see this episode already? Don't think anything changed.
10 minutes later still looking at TV...
Mas?

DH wonders why I have to wake them at 6:40AM to get on a bus that doesn't come till 8:05. They need all that time to eat, get dressed, watch TV and get ready for school.

Anyone else's kids slow as molasses getting ready in he morning??

My DD is very young (3) but she’s already a diva in the morning. She eats breakfast at school but requests “a snack” in the morning. Stands in front of the pantry saying “ummmmmm” and then decides she wants fruit. Never a fruit I have in the house. Or she’ll ask for something like cantaloupe, which I’m not about to start cutting up in the morning.

Then it’s “I don’t want to brush my teeth, I want different underwear, I think the gray boots look better, not the black, I think I want a different bow, can I go get a different bow.”

Once we get to school is no better. My car looks like target exploded so she needs to painstaking decide which toy she wants to CARRY TO THE DOOR WITH HER because I take whatever she chooses away.

I guess it doesn’t get better?

Message edited 2/28/2019 11:07:08 AM.

Anyone else's kids slow as molasses getting ready in he morning??

Lol my DD does the same thing in the morning with getting dressed. She’s constantly back and forth between my bedroom and hers with only one article of clothing on at a time. She just has so much to say that it can’t wait till she’s fully dressed.

I make sure she’s upstairs getting ready 30 mins before we have to leave for the bus.

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I have found that if I let my kids watch tv, play with their phones or any other electronic in the morning, it completely slows them down even when I turn them off. I don't allow any electronics in the morning unless by some freakish miracle they are 100% ready and there is still time before the bus.

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My son is so so slow. I will say hurry we have to go and he says ok but stays at the same pace

One time he came to me with no pants on and said he was ready, I was like wtf.. dude where are you pants??? I am not making this up, its like his brain is on DND.

Every morning this is me - Hurry up and eat, Finished eating?, are you done eating?, get dressed, hurry and get dressed, are you dressed?, brush your teeth. {he Goes downstairs}, did you brush your teeth? No, {back up stairs to brush his teeth. Forgets to brush his teeth}, Did you brush your teeth, go do it now!!.

I feel like if I am not reminding him what to do every 5 seconds, I would still be home waiting for him to get dressed.

He doesn't watch tv, but I do finding him standing there staring into space or playing with the dog half dressed. My favorite is when he puts on the wrong uniform.

Message edited 2/28/2019 12:32:45 PM.

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Yes and it's sooooo annoying. LOL. I hate to be rushy-rushy with her in the a.m., but if I don't, we'll never get there. I drive her to school (literally 2 blocks away) and then head off to work and I swear it takes this kid 5 minutes just to get herself out of the car.
Oh, and she's 6 1/2 and I still dress her in the morning because if I don't - fuhgeddaboutit.
I keep repeating in my head:
Serenity Now,
Serenity Now,
Serenity Now...

Anyone else's kids slow as molasses getting ready in he morning??

No1 is allowed to do anything until they are dressed top to bottom. Then they can have a breakfast snack or something to take out the door. If somehow we have extra time they can watch the tv for a few mins.

Anyone else's kids slow as molasses getting ready in he morning??

I took away all TV and electronics in the morning because it was just a total time suck. So they’re still slow but just slightly less slow

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Glad to see I'm not the only one raising a tortoise. LOL

Some of these reponses made me laugh too!

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DH deals with drop off each morning. it takes them 75 minutes to leave the house and they are usually speed walking to make it the two blocks to school.

i can get DS out the door in 30 minutes. I've tried to give DH pointers but he never listens.

things that work for me:
be ready before my kid wakes up. I KNOW that's really hard, but if i'm not concentrating on him, then he takes his sweet time.
get bookbag and lunch ready the night before
get clothes (including outerwear) ready the night before
no electronics in the morning
only offer 2 breakfast choices

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We're in NYC and they have free breakfast. That made my life so much easier to take out the eating portion

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DS is horribly slow. I bribe him with letting him use his phone, for him to wake up and have breakfast. 20 minutes before he has to go I take his phone away. He has to leave clothes and back pack ready the night before, so he only has to dress, brush teeth and hair. But when I take his phone from him, he sits on the couch and starts thinking for maybe 10 minutes. When he finally decides to get ready, he changes the shirt because there is always something wrong with them, then sneakers because they don't match, etc Once he leaves, I'm exhausted

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Yes, it's like pulling teeth and we have to be out the door by 7am!

Every day I have to tell them every little thing to get ready.

Go get dressed, go brush your teeth, go to the bathroom, brush your hair, put your shoes on, put your coat on, get your backpack.....times two!!

They can't go from one task to the next without being told. All the while I'm trying to get myself ready, and pack lunches!!

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It doesn't get better as teenagers, either....

As a Scoutmaster, I am around 11 to 17 year old boys all the time. DS is 15, and he's extremely slow. Then, when he's with his two main friends, who are also extremely slow, there's a multiplying effect, so the 3 of them together are somehow even slower than each one individually....

It takes forever to get anything done. I spend most of my time just getting the boys to move.....

Anyone else's kids slow as molasses getting ready in he morning??

When my twins start school I can almost guarantee one will never be on time he sleeps an hour past his brother everyday and then wants to lay in his crib another half hour after waking. The day he moves quickly in the morning I’ll be shocked but once he’s going he’s running all day long

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every.single.day.of.my.life

DH is gone in the AM by 6:15 so it's just me and her (she's almost 7) By the time I am out the door in the morning to take her to before care I am sweating bullets. It should not take 45 mins to eat a bag of mini muffins, get dressed and brush teeth and hair!!

Then one day he had to take her to before care because I had to go to work early. That morning he calls me at the office and was like " Wow, she really lolly-gags in the morning."

Welcome to my world DH, welcome to my world

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I have them dress before breakfast.

Breakfast is one of a few things. No other choices. They have gone without and learned to eat.

They eat and then can watch TV until 6 minutes before bus (that’s how long it takes to put on coat, shoes & backpacks).
I wake them an hour before shoe time.

Anyone else's kids slow as molasses getting ready in he morning??

Yes. I have a 6 and a 4 yr old. Mornings are hard they each have to be dropped off at different schools. Just getting them ready and out the door takes an hour. I need to be ready myself before I get them read6 because if I try to get ready at the same time they are aimless....

Anyone else's kids slow as molasses getting ready in he morning??

We are like a well oiled machine in the morning. Granted, I give him little to no time to get ready so he has no choice.

I wake him up at 6:40 and we are out the door by 6:50. He literally gets dressed and brushes his teeth. He eats his breakfast at daycare. Next year, he will eat it at before care. If he needed to eat breakfast at home, he would probably need an additional 20 minutes since he is such a SLOW eater. Or he would be eating a Clif bar on the go.

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Posted by NervousNell

Posted by PitterPatter11

We are like a well oiled machine in the morning. Granted, I give him little to no time to get ready so he has no choice.

I wake him up at 6:40 and we are out the door by 6:50. He literally gets dressed and brushes his teeth. He eats his breakfast at daycare. Next year, he will eat it at before care. If he needed to eat breakfast at home, he would probably need an additional 20 minutes since he is such a SLOW eater. Or he would be eating a Clif bar on the go.

OMG you win the prize! 10 minutes from wake up to out the door?

I feel like it takes my DD that long to roll her eyes at me about having to go to school!