I try my best to keep things calm. My kids go for last-minute panic
You were hope to bring your A game, but at this point you’d settle for any game at all, because you’re running out of time and you need to do something.
To be fair, this penchant for procrastination only applies to my article writing. In my everyday life I actually do everything I can to avoid the last-minute rush. Not that it helps. My children seem to operate as if their lives were a “choose your own adventure” book and they choose Last-Minute Panic every single time.
When they have a week’s notice about an upcoming siyum in school, they consistently choose to wait until the night before to tell me that they had volunteered to bring a cake for their 20 classmates. I can only assume it’s because they love to live life on the edge, taking what could have been a simple errand or activity just 24 hours earlier and turning it into a stressful situation the whole family can participate in.
And I totally get it.
Who wants to take care of things in advance so they can be done efficiently and calmly when we have the option of adding a panic-induced temper tantrum to the mix?
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