How To Increase Productivity Using Your Kitchen Timer

We realized that one of the reasons we don't always drop everything and play dolls with her is that there is no definite amount of time we'll be playing; will it minutes? hours? We'd love to play all day but that just isn't practical. So we came up with a good solution. When it's time to play dolls or paint or whatever it is we're not sure we have time to do, we give her the option of how many minutes she wants to play. Offer up 15 minutes, sometimes she wants less, sometimes more. Then set the timer and give her our total uninterrupted attention.