If chores are a battle in your home, ditch the charts, stickers, and prizes. Instead, adopt these 4 tips from a mom who went from hopeless and tearful to happy and smiling.
, and they struggle doing things that require self-planning and follow through. They are not being lazy and argumentative.
We live in the country and have chickens in the back yard. If I ask her to go feed them, give them water, and bring in the eggs, she has an It may seem like a lot of hands-on parenting, especially if a child is older and “should be able to handle chores.” With ADHD kids, you need to guide them this way until they develop better executive functioning skills, which are slower to mature. It takes less time to do things this way than if she had a meltdown, went outside after I yelled at her, and I had to follow up to make sure she did any of the three things I asked her to do.
I had not given my daughter given bedtime hugs for a few years when I decided to try this little experiment. One night, as she was going up to bed, I said, “I think you forgot something!” I stood in the kitchen and she was halfway up the stairs. She turned around and came back down sighing heavily. I think she thought I was going to tell her to do something, like pick up her coat off the floor.
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