Child Time-Blocks Entire Day With 3-Minute Hourglass

A couple months back, Kina’s friend Niki gave her a little three-minute sand timer he got at the dentist as a gift, which she left at the bottom of a bucket in her bedroom until yesterday, when she brought it out to measure her entire day. Whatever she was doing, or whoever she was talking to, if she saw the sand had run its course, she’d stop to turn it over before continuing. This proceeded until she went to bed, when she pulled out a stool and upturned the timer on it as I finished telling her a bedtime story.

Three minutes later, she didn’t call us back.

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