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[quote=Anonymous]DS is in 6th grade which is middle school here. They have block schedules so he changes classrooms 4-5 times per day plus lunch. He's really stressed out about losing things and remembering things.

He has lost two lunch boxes, a water bottle and a library book so far this year. He also has a really hard time remembering what to bring home every day. He doesn't have homework every day or anything, but for example today he has a science worksheet but forgot to bring home his notebook to refer to. I saw in the weekly parents email that he has a test in Language Arts, so I reminded him to bring home the materials tomorrow to study (as suggested in the teacher email), and he got upset and cried "there's no way I'm going to remember that! That's the problem I can't remember anything!" He gets so upset with himself.

I don't come down hard on him or shame him. But I do want to help him and I really don't know how. My husband is extremely scatterbrained like this so I do want to help DS help himself so he can  do better.

Does anyone have suggestions for this type of thing? How to remember what to bring home from school and how to remember to keep track of things like lunch boxes and books. [/quote]

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