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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
The planning part of the brain is the last to finish growing, and it keeps developing well into the twenties. Eighteen is a legal age rather than a developmental one.
This is worth saying plainly in a family where someone is being asked why they cannot just be responsible now. Nobody expects a fourteen year old to…
With attention difficulties the organising side often runs a few years behind the birthday. A nineteen year old may be running life more like a sixteen year old, and that is a lag rather than a verdict.
Set expectations against where someone actually is instead of what year they were born in. That way the support that felt normal at school does not…
If a year out is coming, call it a bridge rather than a gap. A gap is a hole in a record. A bridge is going somewhere.
That word will be repeated at every family gathering for twelve months, so it is worth choosing carefully. A bridge year has a direction and an end,…
If everything came apart the moment school ended, it may be that the structure was never yours. It belonged to the timetable, and the timetable stopped.
School decides when you get up, what happens next and when the work is due, so nobody ever finds out whether the person can build a week from…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Where there is a choice, take the class that meets at a fixed hour with other people in the room. Watch it whenever you like turns into never watched more often than anyone admits.
A live class hands you three things for nothing: a time, other people present, and someone who notices you are missing. A recorded course strips all…