Teaching children how to be organized is difficult even without ADHD thrown into the mix. Here are some tips that help.
It’s easy to read a list of diagnostic criteria for ADHD in adults and pick yourself out from the crowd. Got that one. Yep. That one, too. Man. Wow. Yep. Yep. Dang. ADHD, despite its variances from person to person, is pretty clear to diagnose for some of us. What is difficult isI have one child diagnosed with ADHD who shows no interest in my coping strategies. What do I know, right? I’m only Dad. Who cares that I’ve been living with ADHD for 50 years? Yes, 50.
Even if she has pseudo-ADHD instead of true ADHD, there is much she can learn to manage her life. Tonight I had my first glimmer that maybe there was hope for her. She doesn’t have much patience for conversations that involve abstract concepts. “Do A, B, and C, and you can have Z” is sometimes more than she can follow, never mind “How do we organize A, B, and C so that we have time for Z?” Yet tonight, the years of trying to include her in the organizing process paid off.
I helped her see that we needed to eat first, but that dinner needed to be fast, so we microwaved something instead of preparing the pasta with sauce that I had originally planned. Then we ran out the door, which is something that she’s not very good at, and zipped into the store. Unfortunately, the store return took too much time. When I suggested that I do the library run without her so that she could be on time to her special needs group at church, she agreed. I almost fell out of the car.
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