Does anyone have any strategies for directing a lovely but very dreamy 6 year old DS to ACTUALLY DO THINGS

[Anchovy]

A polite way to put it is that my DS has developed a "rich interior life", LOL.

He is 6 and in year 1. In general terms he is an absolute poppet - bright as a button, very affectionate, funny, very happy. He is also doing well at school - reading fluently, popular, nice group of friends, absolutely loves going to school.

However over the last few months he has become so dreamy that it is very hard to get him to do things sequentially. He has absolutely no sense of urgency whatsoever. When he is supposed to be getting dressed you will find him sitting on the floor with pants, vest and one sock on thinking earnestly about whether Darth Siddius is more evil than Darth Maul. When I asked him to get table mats out yesterday he ran round the kitchen island twice, did a bit of hopping, annoyed his sister, and when I asked him what he was supposed to be doing he had no idea. He has just started at an out of school football club and spends a lot of time bimbling around on the touchline clearly having forgotten what he is supposed to be practising.

Is this just a developmental phase? Is it a boy thing to be such a bubblehead? I know I make it sound funny but it is starting to impact on his school stuff a bit and I think we need a few strategies for getting him to just get a bit more focus rather than this being a slippery slope to Planet Bubble.

Any views?

DD is a Pisces as am I and yes we are both dreamers. Now DH is a Sagittarius and I've never heard them described as dreamers before, but now you come to mention it he often has his head in the clouds, never knows what day/time it is and sometimes looks at me as if he doesn't know who I am because he's so absorbed in his own little world....bless! (Until you're trying to get somewhere on time that is!)

I read somewhere recently that parenting is all about relationships, and it sounds obvious now but I never thought about it like that before. I think about my children as being one of this type or that type, eg. a dreamer, but the issue really is how the type of person/parent you are relates to the type child they are.

ds also has a penchant for "strong" girls as friends.

dd1 is attracted to other dreamers and gentle souls. Boys or girls but not the organised bossy types. She has 3 boys who separately bring their hamsters round to play.