<![CDATA[Can kids (teens) really multi-task?]]>I get very upset whenever my children study with the TV on, talk on the phone, surfing the Internet etc. I came from the old school where the only allowable distraction is listening to music while doing homework.


My friends told me I am outdated on teensโ€™ capabilities nowadays. Based on their experiences with their children, teens can mulit-task very well while completing their homework or revision. So am I being paranoid or what?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/topic/1828/can-kids-teens-really-multi-taskRSS for NodeMon, 04 May 2026 02:06:54 GMTFri, 16 Jan 2009 19:19:33 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:06:20 GMT]]>errr.... I think I have no problem with my kid doing schoolwork while listening to music coz I was that type myself, provided that she has my special ability....


I can totally \"switch off\" the music mentally and become \"deaf\" to the surroundings if I want to concentrate on something else, then have it reactivated again when I feel like taking a break. DH was amazed before coz he needed to shout into my ears to wake me up from work.

Any boss wants to hire me? :lol:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14851https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14851Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:06:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:00:07 GMT]]>

schellen:
... but my DH will complain cos the music I listen to is rock, metal, rap, etc. He insists that only classical music is good for studying, to which I reply that classical music will only make me fall asleep. ๐Ÿ˜›


Anyway, what sashimi said about multi-tasking at office is probably typing work e-mail while answering work phone call, etc. I make sure that when I visit KSP forum at work, I only pay attention to forum and nothing else.....until boss comes out of his room lah. ๐Ÿ˜‰ sashimi's only multi-tasking at home is probably reading magazines or books while in the toilet. :lol:

I know one thing for sure, I can't do anything if you are blasting heavy metal/rock in the house while YOU are multi-tasking! I don't \"insist\" only classical is good for studying, it's just my preference. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

multitasking is a pain in today's IT/project offices when one is expected to manage 3-4 projects at the same time. Everyone is multitasking and failing to meet each others' deadlines. :roll:

If people will just focus on one thing at a time, deadlines can be met and things can be completed faster. I.e. FINISH 1 deadline every 4 weeks, 16 weeks = 4 deadlines properly accomplished; as opposed to juggling 4 deadlines SIMULTANEOUSLY and only finishing all four 32 weeks later, and all half-baked jobs cos you can't concentrate on anything. :stupid:


sashimi can also watch Battlestar Galactica DVD + paint Gundam kit + reply SMS + Eat meal at the same time. ๐Ÿ˜‰

My DW's favourite is how I would be vacuuming the floor while rearranging the shelf next to the floor.

There is one thing I am powerless against: trying to answer simultaneously fielded questions from DD the Little Miss Chatterbox and DW the Big Miss Nag-a-bot at the same time. This one I give up. ๐Ÿ˜

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14849https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14849Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:00:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:39:44 GMT]]>There was this newspaper article sometime back about students multi-tasking-doing homework+checking SMS+checking email+watching TV snippets etc and the student claimed that she needed only a couple of hrs sleeping!! Pity their brains-overworked and insufficient rest. Sorry but I am not impressed at all at her 'capabilities'.

As to multi-tasking at workplace, I define it as doing several jobs/projects at the same time. When I was a Sales Manager, I had to handle admin/accounts/HR/sales/purchasing/secretarial duties as well. I became a Jack of all trade but master of none. Consolation was that I got to learn more besides sales and that what kept me doing that for almost 20 years till I finally quit my job. Bet in this hard times, there are many people out there who have to shoulder such burden now. ๐Ÿ˜ข

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14847https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14847Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:39:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:05:29 GMT]]>schellen, what you shared is funny. :lol:

you and sashimi make such a cute couple. :romance:

One child told me the other day he was tying to complete his assignment in his assessment book while in the toilet... Gosh! :!:

Actually mothers are the ones who are good at multi-tasking too... on the phone while doing laundry and keeping an eye on the stove... on the phone, checking email or surfing and photocopying documents etc.. ๐Ÿ˜„

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14844https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14844Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:05:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:47:07 GMT]]>

csc:
ya, i only allowed my daughter to \"double-task' ie listening to her ipod when she is doing mundane homework like ไน ๅญ—๏ผŒๆŠ„่Œƒๆ–‡๏ผŒcorrections and the like which do not require much 'brain' work. She says she is a audio learner and therefore needs music accompaniment while doing work. :lol:

I don't think that is what an audio learner is unless she is listening to the homework being \"read\" to her while she writes it down. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Anyway, I need music to work too cos without it, work is soooo dreary. For example, when I had deadlines for essays during schooldays, I needed to listen to music while doing them. I generally get Bs so I figure that must have helped. When I started postgrad dip studies a few years ago, I did the same thing too but my DH will complain cos the music I listen to is rock, metal, rap, etc. He insists that only classical music is good for studying, to which I reply that classical music will only make me fall asleep. ๐Ÿ˜›

Anyway, what sashimi said about multi-tasking at office is probably typing work e-mail while answering work phone call, etc. I make sure that when I visit KSP forum at work, I only pay attention to forum and nothing else.....until boss comes out of his room lah. ๐Ÿ˜‰ sashimi's only multi-tasking at home is probably reading magazines or books while in the toilet. :lol:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14843https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14843Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:47:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:37:04 GMT]]>ya, i only allowed my daughter to \"double-task' ie listening to her ipod when she is doing mundane homework like ไน ๅญ—๏ผŒๆŠ„่Œƒๆ–‡๏ผŒcorrections and the like which do not require much 'brain' work. She says she is a audio learner and therefore needs music accompaniment while doing work. :lol:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14841https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14841Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:37:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:24:43 GMT]]>rememember when I was studying I also tell my parents that I am \"multi tasking\" when I want to watch TV ๐Ÿ˜› of course not much got in during TV time.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14839https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14839Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:24:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:21:09 GMT]]>The only multi tasking my son is allowed to do is hearing music in MP3 player while eating. :lol:


For me and wife, happy that he finish food without complaining (he's a damn fuzzy eater).

Watching TV and reading his school books - NO
Watching TV and reading his story books - Yes

So, we can allow the so-called multitasking in some area which doesn't affect them academically or physically.

๐Ÿ˜„

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14838https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14838Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:21:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:14:33 GMT]]>

ChiefKiasu:
sashimi:

*I* maintain the opinion that \"multi-tasking\" is the world's MOST OVER-RATED \"virtue\".


It should be banned in kids, adults and especially in the office! :x ๐Ÿ˜› :x

Sashimi... I guess you must be the boss of the office :lol: Don't ban my stock market surfing... pleeazzz!

Not at all! In fact, it's because of the way bosses never bother to reply emails, never read the reports, then email us to ask for the report we sent 2 weeks ago... that convinced me multi-tasking only serves to divide your mind into more parts than it can handle....

stock marketing surfing is not multi-tasking lah... that one is your personal life. ๐Ÿ™‚

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14836https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14836Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:14:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:45:41 GMT]]>

sashimi:
*I* maintain the opinion that \"multi-tasking\" is the world's MOST OVER-RATED \"virtue\".


It should be banned in kids, adults and especially in the office! :x ๐Ÿ˜› :x
Sashimi... I guess you must be the boss of the office :lol: Don't ban my stock market surfing... pleeazzz!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14832https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14832Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:45:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:43:36 GMT]]>

schellen:
... forget to chew (or worse, forget about the spoon hovering in the air). :roll:

Kekekke... perfect example of why all those new media claims about the ability of gen-Z kids to multi-task is all hogwash.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14831https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14831Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:43:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:31:46 GMT]]>*I* maintain the opinion that \"multi-tasking\" is the world's MOST OVER-RATED \"virtue\".


It should be banned in kids, adults and especially in the office! :x ๐Ÿ˜› :x

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14817https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14817Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:31:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:45:07 GMT]]>Haha, so are we all \"outdated\" parents ? :shock: Personally I also don't agree with multi-tasking. I believe in \"Finish one thing, and then proceed to the other\".

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14738https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14738Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:45:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:42:05 GMT]]>I agree with mincy and pinky. Even when people eat and read or eat and watch TV at the same time, there will be times when we get distracted by the book/show and forget to chew (or worse, forget about the spoon hovering in the air). :roll:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14737https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14737Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:42:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:40:59 GMT]]>hmmm I have yet met anyone who can really multitask. Those who can do it during TV says they were actually studying during commercial or less interesting part of the show.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14735https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14735Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:40:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can kids (teens) really multi-task? on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:44:59 GMT]]>Sorry but I do not agree with this โ€˜multi-taskโ€™ reasoning. I consider it as a distraction and I strongly believe there is a time to study and a time to

relax.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14729https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/14729Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:44:59 GMT