Time blindness - caused by lack of clocks?

[Anonymous]

Was reading some threads on ADHD and time blindness in kids and Hs. Which got me wondering - is it possible a lot of this is caused by the lack of clocks?

As a kid I remember we had clocks in almost every room. One in the kitchen, one in the living room, all the bedrooms. So you could always see what time it is. Now, we only see it on our phones - so to check the time, you pull out your phone (and then get distracted).

I have time blindness issues with H and my kids so I’m thinking of ordering a bunch of clocks and putting them up. Would be an interesting experiment.

[Anonymous]

When my first was about 5 years old, I bought a few analog clocks and put them around the house - in the living room and dining room - to make sure that my kids would be able to read a clock. We would periodically ask them? Look at the clock and tell us how many minutes until swim/gymnastics/music lessons. It worked.

[Anonymous]

No, it doesn't help, at least for my severely ADHD kid it didn't. He has an analog watch and checks it often. I trained him when he was little to do his homework with a Time Timer, where kids can see the remaining time as a red quadrant that get smaller and smaller. There are clock faces everywhere in the house.

Or... maybe his time-blindness would be EVEN WORSE without all this. Ha! That would be hellish.

[Anonymous]

I think it's less about what time it is than how much time has passed or will pass for a future task or event.

There's an emotional component in that preferred tasks seem like no time has passed and non-preferred tasks seem like they will take forever and are this dreaded. So timers help because you can see that the non-preferred tasks won't actually take the huge amount of time it feels like they take and then it's easier to commit to the hard thing next time because you know it's really only two minutes or whatever.

[Anonymous]

No, it’s not lack of clocks.

[Anonymous]

Are you serious?
It’s because of ADHD!