Publisher's Synopsis
Children's concept of time is vague, they do not realize that their dawdling will affect others, so dress or wash their faces and brush their teeth, eat or always dawdle. When faced with adults' urging, they will ask "Why do you always rush me?" The mother in the book tells her child through a heartwarming parent-child dialogue that if you dawdle, you will be late for kindergarten, and your mother will be late for work....... Even your favorite teacher Yumiko will be in trouble! There is no reasoning, no abstract concepts, just imagining "what will happen if you are late" is enough for children to understand that dawdling is not a good habit and to make changes.
