When Your Child Has . . . ADDADHD by Rebecca Rutledge

Author:Rebecca Rutledge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2008-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Organizational Learning

Most parents have an intuitive understanding of why organizational skills are important. They have lots of experience organizing everything from meals and linen closets to car pools and birthday parties. In order to teach their child to organize, they also need to grasp the concrete benefits so they can explain them and boost their youngster’s motivation to learn. They need to know the precise steps involved so they can walk their youngster through the steps.

A New Beginning

To set the stage for a new beginning, tell your child that perhaps cleaning up his bedroom and keeping track of his school papers and possessions have been hard because you did not sit down and teach him how to organize them. An apology for not having provided enough help can be a good way to extend an olive branch and convince a defiant youngster that you are on his side. Explain the benefits of learning to organize a bedroom and notebook and keep them in order: It will be easier for him to find his things. He can use the same skills to organize his school desk, locker, backpack, toys, collections, and computer files. There will be fewer frustrations and upsets over misplaced and lost possessions.

Organizing 101

Organizing objects of any kind entails putting related items into a group and storing them together in a specific location, such as clothes in a closet, toys in a cabinet, school supplies in a drawer, soiled clothes in a laundry hamper, school papers in a notebook, etc. It is obvious to parents that it is easier to find a particular worksheet if papers are kept in a notebook than if they are randomly tucked into various pockets, books, and folders, and it is easier to find a pair of clean socks if all of them are kept in the same drawer. This is not necessarily obvious to children, however. Parents need to explain that although organizing takes some time and effort up front, it saves lots of time and many headaches in the long run.

DID YOU KNOW?

Someday your child will need to keep an entire house and an office, desk, or work area in order. The best way to prepare is by teaching him how to manage his bedroom and school papers—and helping him develop the discipline to actually keep them organized.

With a good organizational system, your child should be able to locate any item in about two seconds. If much more time is needed, that usually means the group is too large. In that case, the usual procedure is to divide the group by creating some new categories.

For instance, most students put their school papers into different sections of a notebook or keep them in separate folders so they can find individual papers more easily. Different students use different systems, but the usual approach is to group papers by subject. If it is still hard to locate a particular item, some of the sections may need to be subdivided. The papers for social studies, arithmetic, spelling, etc.

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