My eldest daughter (6) is a snail, I'm sure! She has no notion of needing to keep the pace up and whilst it may be good for her to be horizontal, it's not good for my blood pressure.
She's always the last out of the class. I constantly find myself exasperated in the mornings as we're trundling out the house to take DH to work and kids to school and she seems on another planet (the planet of slow!)
Her teacher said at parents evening that she has the most creative and imaginative ideas in the class but doesn't get to realise them because she is so slow. I think she was being polite and secretly wanted to scream like I want to sometimes. I'm not unusually uptight, but I feel responsible as a parent to teach my kid to be punctual and to find appropriate ways to complete tasks in an appropriate amount of time (she gets sad if she doesn't finish her writing or whatever at school) She's a bit of a perfectionist which doesn't help.
I'm not meaning to be glib, it really does cause problems and I want to give her the best possible chance of doing well in life, and her going slow seems to be a real problem for all of us. We have another child who has epilepsy and has just recovered from dislocated hips, so there's always lots of additional stuff to do.
I had her at home in a birthing pool and she arrived at the last possible minute that the hospital would allow me to go through with a home birth. She was two weeks late and to be honest, she's never been in a hurry since!
Seriously, any advice would be really appreciated!