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When time gets away from you — or them

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A boy is so absorbed in a tablet at the table that the afternoon has slipped away; his mother pauses behind him, noticing the time.
You look up and the hour’s gone — and you’re genuinely surprised, because nothing inside told you it was going.

The short version

If time keeps slipping away — yours, theirs, or both — here's the short version before anything else:

  • For a brain like this, time isn't a clock ticking quietly in the background. There's now, and there's not-now — and not-now can feel like it's barely there at all.
  • That's why the hour vanishes, why "five more minutes" turns into one, why starting feels impossible until suddenly it's urgent. It isn't laziness, and your child isn't ignoring you.
  • The fix isn't trying harder to feel time. It's making time something you can see — and pairing that with one small routine so it actually holds.

That's the whole module. The rest is the why, and the how.

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