After school is work time for me so far this year. Once wrestling starts, I’ll have to do that work some other time, but for now, it’s really nice.
Yesterday I sat down to do some work and found myself doing three things at once. I was writing a worksheet, researching instructional materials on the internet, and writing chapel all at the same time. It wasn’t working very well. On top of that, I was getting distracted very easily. At one point, I found myself reading an article about whether or not studying the Bible should be included in History or Literature Class in public schools.
Every once in a while, I’d shake myself, click over to another tab or window, and start back to work on one of the three things I was doing. Sheesh. Is this what it’s like to be a distractible kid?
I think you just described what it’s like to be Peggy or me.
While at my parents’ house I had the disturbing realization that when left to my own devices, I seldom finish a thought. There’s always some song playing on the mental radio and two or three other thoughts that are going through the cycle. At least your distractedness was all productive.
Yup, he did! But multiply it by 10 or so and you have my brain…24/7…sometimes I can actually feel it cramp a little…no wonder I’m so exhausted all the time!
(once when I said something totally random…my kids made me trace back how I got to that thought within the conversation we were having…and I realized the super speed of my brain that went from one thought — thru about 5 more — to what appeared to others to be a random statement…all in about 2 seconds.)
How do you do three things at a time?
Do you have three computers?
Hehe… Well, I wasn’t doing a very good job on any of them.
I had different windows open on the computer. I kept jumping between them.
By the way, yes that is what it’s like to be a kid like me.