Ana question...

[conuly]

I've long since discovered that she listens better if I'm holding her hands, or otherwise touching her. Otherwise she gets distracted and may even miss that I'm talking. (It's annoying. She asks "what?", and then she has to ask again and again because she gets distracted midsentence. I really dislike being asked to repeat myself even once, so I'm sitting there getting annoyed at her for my own issues.)

I've no idea what's normal or not, of course. So... how normal is this for a three-year-old child?

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[leora.livejournal.com]

Yes, to doodle. Freecell... not sure. It seems less physical. I would be more inclined to suspect it's a different issue... too much brainpower wanting to go everywhere, so you give yourself a simple, mildly brainpower task to eat up the excess, which keeps you from constantly distracting yourself with observations and daydreams, and the rest can go to whatever you're supposed to be learning from.

I don't know to what extent there are formal theories about the above, but that seems to be what is going on for a lot of people.