Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD by Susan C Pinsky

Author:Susan C Pinsky
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2012-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

The Unmade Bed

If your child has ADHD, you will have to pick your battles, and bed making is likely to be the first battle you will jettison. Nonetheless, on those occasions when it is important that the bed be made, you will want to simplify the chore in order to enable your child to manage it. Of course, this will not be a perfectly made bed, but it can be good enough for the child to feel a sense of accomplishment and independence.

▪ Avoid bunk beds and lofts—they’re too difficult to make up.

▪ Pull your child’s bed away from the wall so that he can easily walk around it to pull up the bedding.

▪ Reduce the bedding to a sheet, a comforter, and one pillow so that he need only pull up the plush (thick-enough-to-hide-rumpled-sheet-beneath) comforter, and plump the pillow to create a reasonably made bed.

▪ Rid the bed of all but one, or at most two, stuffed animals.

Even the most distractible child can occasionally manage to make up a bed if he need only pull up the comforter, plump his pillow, and place one stuffed animal near the headboard.

If your child’s bedroom is also his playroom, then arrange the furniture so that the toy area is separate from the dressing area; it just makes the room easier to clean.

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