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[quote=Anonymous]"DS needed multiple reminders to get up and get dressed, complained about breakfast, whined about putting on shoes and jacket, screamed when backpack strap got caught, and dawdled getting ready to go out the door. All of this meant we were ten minutes late going out the door. When I opened the trunk of the car to get my umbrella, he just stood behind me when I thought he would have been getting in the car. This is when I asked what was wrong with him, as in, you know to get in the car, and we are running late, so why are you just standing there?"

He is six. I know there are a lot of self-sufficient kids on here, or so the parents would have you believe, but my six year old does this sort of thing often. Of course if I tell her we are going to Wendy's, or the waterslide park, she is miraculously able to dress herself head to toe and jump in the car without assistance in record time. Sometimes I thing she wants to stay a baby, and feel like a "little" kid again and that my helping her - even with things she can already do, or I don't have time for - makes her feel loved. It is the worst midweek when she is worn out form school and aftercare.

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