Some can multitask some cannot. I am certainly in the latter camp. A few examples from yesterday to evidence the point

  • Attempt to make breakfast and prepare a pack up for lunch. Ended up pouring fruit juice on the cornflakes and using cold water in the coffee,
  • Driving to Doncaster and son asked my opinion on King James II. Two minutes later I had demonstrated a complete lack of historical expertise AND I also realised that I had missed our motorway junction,
  • I tried to pay the zoo entrance fee while holding a bottle of water and a cup of coffee. Although I did manage to purchase two tickets I also managed to drop the water and spill the coffee down my leg,
  • Trying at the same time to make soup, grill some vegetables and cut some carrots. Unbelievably I managed to not turn the cooker on the stove so the soup didn’t heat up, burn the vegetables and almost slice my finger off,
  • Tried to send a relative a birthday card while trying to make a telephone complaint to our broadband supplier. After posting the envelope I discovered the card still sat on the desk.

So I can’t multitask however our son…..

During the evening I found him sat with both iPads on his lap, while at the same time the TV was on. When I asked why the response was

“Somedays just don’t have enough hours to do all the stuff. Had three things I still really needed to do so I am watching a video about William Shakespeare on your iPad and a video about caring for gerbils on my iPad. Plus I am listening to a documentary about the Dinosaur mass extinction on the TV.”

Clearly from our later discussions he managed to absorb an unbelievable amount of detail from all three information streams. I could only dream of that.

Having said that if someone is so good at that how difficult can it be to put his dirty clothes in the washing basket…….

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  3. They say women are better at multitasking than men. They did not ask me because I am terrible at it. Just having a conversation in the car with my kids makes me go the wrong way every time. I prefer to do one task at a time. Kids these days are unbelievable. They can do quite a bit with their time.

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      1. Oh noooooo. You know what – when I could see to cook, before I got ill, I was ALWAYS burning myself on eithr the oven or the grill. Your son is absolutely great. He’s got it all sussed lol.

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  8. Ugh, you’re me and your son’s like my college roommate. She could have music on, the tv on, a computer game going, and STILL somehow manage to write up her homework. The most I can do when the tv’s on is catch up on blogs. Like right now? Got the original Shaft on. 🙂

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    2. Sorry dog jumped on my lap and pressed return. Was saying… I have made about 3 attempts to write a post for tomorrow already but it’s just impossible to concentrate or get the words past my dumbass filter. Just to many distractions. No idea how you can find a way of writing to your level with 3 kids, a part time job and all the other stuff going on.

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  9. Thank you so much for the much-needed end-of-day laugh at your multi-tasking antics! I am much the same and once told a boss that there is no such thing as true multi-tasking, but rather if we attempt to spread ourselves so thin, then none of the things we are doing is done properly. I still believe that, at least for my own single-track mind. 😉

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      1. I hate bosses like that. I had one once, who always used the Nike slogan “Just do it!” But to be fair, I’ve had some really great bosses in my life who appreciated all that I did.

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  11. That brought a smile to my face! As did the cute ex-pat wallabys which, i assume, were in the zoo and not roaming the Yorkshire Dales hunting for a free lunch?

    Hope the finger mends soon. (Unco!) 😉

    “Having said that if someone is so good at that how difficult can it be to put his dirty clothes in the washing basket…….” – you make a crap Dad, but an Excellent Mum to your boy!

    He’s lucky he’s got you… and you’re lucky to have him!

    ( Was ‘the care of gerbils’ a pre-emptive strike or did you manage to find a petshop that sold them – you didn’t say??) 😉

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