Today we will discuss how making a schedule can support a child with ADHD.
Imagine this:
You entered a room, stationery splash across the table, piles of books stacked on top of one another.
How familiar is this scene?
Weak organisation skill is often the case for a person with ADHD.
A schedule can strengthen organisation skills and and develop planning skills.
Using a smartphone app - calendar or planner to create a schedule or reminder can be a great start.
Personally, I use #Atoms, the app created by James Clear, author of the renowned book, Atomic Habits, to develop habits I want to form.
The free trial of #Atoms has a three weeks period - the perfect duration to form a habit. I develop prompt engineering, sales funnel building and networking on LinkedIn and Facebook, all from using this app.
There are three steps to focus:
1. the habit you wish to form
2. when in the day would you like to excute this habit
3. the identity you would like to form from this habit.
For example, when I wanted to get better in prompt engineering, statement in #Atoms would be:
"I want to be better at prompting with ChatGPT using the R.I.C.E. framework, and I will prompt at 7am daily, before work, so that I will become better at harness the power of AI for productivity."
On a daily basis, a visual aid helps me to keep track of my to-do-list. A simple post-it note, with boxes to checkoff, helps transit from one activity to another easily because it's a visual reminder of what's up next.
Interestingly, the ADHD brain thrives with schedule, but often resist to follow one.
So encourage your child to start small.
Don't like to follow a week worth of schedule? No problem, start with one day of a week.
Want a bigger sense of accomplishment? Look back in a month and consider the productivity between scheduled and unscheduled days.
When your child complete his / her to-dos list, don't forget to celebrate them and reward yourself!
See you next week!
One progression at a time,
Felicia
