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Focus, starting, and ADHD
Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.
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Implementation intentions
Putting things off is mood repair rather than laziness: delay removes the bad feeling straight away and the cost lands later. So the move is not more willpower, it is a plan specific enough to run without a decision.
One move, today
Write one sentence: when it is [time] and I am at [place], I will [the first small action]. Naming when and where is the part the evidence supports.
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2 practicesPut the rules up on the wall where everyone can see them, and put the child's own version on a card on their desk.
A rule that lives only in memory is not there in the second it is needed, which is the second something more interesting has just walked past. A card…
Some children need to move, and the choice is whether that movement is allowed for or whether it arrives as a disruption later on.
A ball chair, a standing desk, a seat near the front, or permission to walk to the back and return with a nod and nothing said: any of these let the…