Teaching sequencing
Many ADHD children struggle with getting up to speed in terms of executing regular every day correctly. I find this particularly applies to handling the morning and evening routines. I don’t know if my five year old has ADHD or…
Matt Reid
Generic Medication Primer
If you are not familiar with how generic medications work, here are the basics: It often cost hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a new drug. As a result, new drugs are protected from competition for a period of…
Organizing for/with Kids
NAPO New England Tips. Check out this link. I am often featured with a tip of the month… and the other organizers have good stuff too.
Thankful
If you had told me, when I was 14, that you had a magic lamp with a powerful genie and that he (or she) would let me change one thing about myself I would not have hesitated a second. I…
Can I feel the meds work
Clients and parents often ask me if I can feel the medication work. I can’t remember if I’ve posted about this before or not. Here’s the short answer: I don’t feel like a switch has been flicked, but there is…
Bad Ass Quilts
I tough an organizing class last night at Brookline Adult & Community Ed. It was a small group of six women. They were a sassy bunch with lots of questions, stuff to add, and some of giving me “the business.”…
When to organize?
One thing that I feel the need to impress upon my organizing clients is that organizing is not a one time thing. As much time and energy we as we put in to the initial organizing project to get your…
You will have regrets, I promise!
So, I always tell my clients that they will, inevitably, regret getting rid of between 1 and 5 items after their organizational purge. My last two postings about getting rid of my T-Shirts and organizing dry storage reminded me that…
Punk Rock Philosophy
I’m a punk rock kid at heart. I noticed a specific lyric from Social Distortion’s latest album. Seems relevant to the clutter prone… I’ll tell you something, baby, that’s a factNever see a hearse with a luggage rackAll your money,…
Don’t let your list get you down
As I am finishing up one of my most productive days in a while, it occurred to me that I’m probably going to end up with only slightly fewer things on my List Of Things To Do than when I started the day.…