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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think your husband has the right attitude.  Kids shouldn't always feel hurried and stressed.  Get dressed and leave the house when you are ready especially if there is no clear/necessary time to be.

Im sure you constantly shriek at them to be on time for stuff raising their cortisol and anxiety levels.  Let them be.  Go back to work and let him do things his way.[/quote]

I’m the wife and now my kids are older teens I see this as good and bad. Yes all the rushing them out to do fun stuff seemed to be such a waste of stress and unnecessary negative emotions. But I was also the one that anticipated their needs and my kids weren’t the type that would be fine with a later nap or would forget to eat lunch if I didn’t remind them, so dilly dallying meant missing the sleep or food window and otherwise we were throwing snacks at them or constantly buying food/drinks out that we couldn’t afford at the time.

If OP’s kids and dh are happy with the slow method then that’s great, [b]but if he’s bringing home kids who are melting down because lunch is 2 hours late because of the dilly dallying then that’s the problem[/b]. [/quote]

The OP started an entire post to micro-manage how her husband gets his kids ready.  If he was bringing home tired or melting down kids she surely would have mentioned it to add to her smug "I do it best" credentials.[/quote]

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