It's said that when your child is too close to your personality type, you get often irrationally angry because the flaws/mistakes you see in yourself, you see in the child.
My older child is all about living in the moment, like NOW. "Oh yeah, I was going to clean my teeth, but then I saw a comic that's interesting, so I decided to do that." "Yeah, I heard you, but now I am deeply into something that intrigues me beyond anything."
I observed it closely, and I do not think it's ADHD nor just kids being kids—it's deeply woven into her personality. More so, I noticed that I have the same energy (although I have learned to beat it for mundane tasks). I have long been proclaiming that if I am to do some project (especially work-work related), I have to jump in and do the thing before it loses its momentum. If I do not push it NOW, I know from experience it will fall into the overflowing bottom drawer of TODO projects.
So I was really happy (and she too for that matter) when she got all the backlog cleared at school and even received sung praises from the headmaster about her turning for the better when we met. So, when putting her to bed and having our good night talk, I naturally asked what changed.
"You see daddy, I just go and sit alone so nobody disturbs me, and then I say, I have to do at least half this page or I can't do something later. Like play with my unicorn, or have sweets. And that works!" #soproud
Anyway it seems like I will be the only procrastinator left in this family. #hodl
#parenting