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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.
A clock only counts if you can see it without doing anything. Behind you, in a pocket, behind a lock screen: that is not a clock, that is an errand.
Walk through the places where time actually disappears for you and put something visible in each one. The bathroom, the kitchen, the desk, the room…
When you are sure something takes ten minutes, do not argue with yourself. Write down the guess, start a timer, and look at both afterwards.
Do it for the handful of jobs that keep wrecking your mornings: the shower, the email, the tidy before guests. Keep the numbers somewhere you can…
Write the morning out in small steps with times against them and stick it where you will pass it. Bathroom finished by quarter past, clothes on by half past, at the table by twenty to.
A single hour before you leave is far too long an interval to monitor, so you find out you are late only when you are late. Broken into six pieces,…
If the internal clock is not there, put clocks in the room. Somewhere the child can see without turning round, a timer on the desk, one on the wall by where they work.
Think of it as a prop rather than a cure. The aim is not to train an ability into existence before the child is allowed to cope, it is to let them…
There is more about focus, starting, and adhd than the practices: the focus, starting, and adhd area has the themes and the courses too.
Take the Friday deadline and walk it backwards onto the days. What happens Monday, what happens Tuesday, written down where both of you can see it.
Children with this difficulty rarely generate the sequence themselves, and asking them to is asking for the thing that is hard. So supply it, on…