My 7 year old daughter is receiving a classical education in every respect: I teach her mathematics and Latin, and she takes fencing, riding and piano lessons every week. She also goes to a Montessori School, which happens to be the best school where I live. We also hire a drawing instructor that comes to our apartment, teaching her once a week. Everything goes well and she is multi-talented, creative, empathic etc, except...she ALWAYS rushes away and does everything too quickly (sometimes impatiently). This is the one, general, bombastic weakness that she has, no matter what. In life, she has been very fortunate in getting the best possible teachers and tutors. Her first Montessory teacher, in Kindergarten, was legendary. Her piano instructor was a long-time pupil (and one of the foremost) of Shinichi Suzuki, her godmother a national champion of equestrian sports, her fencing instructor likewise the national champion of foil in the country where I live, etc. They all, without exception, tell her the same thing, constantly, as do her current school teacher, her parents and grandparents: "Dear little friend, take it...e-a-s-y. Slow down." Things have always come to her easily. She is ahead of her classmates in math and reading, even though this is a tough school that generally accepts only the "best" of children. If she is focused she can solve complex problems very quickly. Now, however, because of this Achilles heel that she has, much is lost due to carelessness and recklessness. She wants to get through a piano piece as quickly as possible, she wants to get ahead of that horse in front of her as soon as possible, causing the riding instructor to get angry since you need to have a safety distance between one horse and another, she makes unnecessary errors in her math book because she is not paying attention. I don't think she has ADD since she can perform very well and absorb absolutely EVERYTHING when actually focusing. As mentioned, it seems her only problem is that she wants to get ahead of things, all the time. This is simply making us crazy. Thus: What can one do to make a child hurry less and slow down? Could one, for instance, teach her to meditate? If so, how? I have tried to have her sit down and meditate with me, but it is simply impossible. I have even tried Sam Harris's Waking Up App, which contains a meditation course for children, but unsuccessfully. So what can we do?