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[quote=Anonymous]I have a dawdler in 1st. The thing that has worked the best to keep me from yelling and nagging is to get her up earlier to account for some dawdle time (and also means getting her to bed earlier too - earlier than her peers I think, but she needs a lot of sleep).

And like others said, strict routine so that she can do it on autopilot. Wake up, use the bathroom, get dressed, make bed, brush teeth (I hate doing this before breakfast too but she eats so slowly that I figure it's at least better than not brushing at all - thankfully good dental checkups so far), breakfast. She never tries to sneak any other activities in, but she does usually starts daydreaming at some point and then gets distracted from what she was doing and can turn a 10 second activity into 20 minutes if I don't nudge her. I have no idea how I ended up giving birth to Fancy Nancy, but there you go.

So in our case, tacking an extra 20 minutes on to the morning did the trick. She doesn't feel so rushed and is in a great mood as she tootles along eventually getting her things done and I feel tons better because of the 1. reduction in stress from constantly feeling like we were running late and 2. not feeling like a jerk for making my kid hate school mornings.[/quote]

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