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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately sometimes the oldest clothes get ruined by our dryer. It snags on the lint trap and the oldest clothes have the most worn-out weak fibers, so they tear. It's a real bummer! There is no solution. You need to accept his low executive functioning and minimize un-important stuff. For example, think capsule wardrobe. All pants are blue or gray. All tops go with blue and gray. All socks are white or black. If he likes something, buy duplicates. So he can't screw it up and doesn't have to think about it. Lots of people like capsule wardrobes because it's so much less effort. Read That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week and hire someone, the parent-child relationship is far too fraught for you to help him successfully. [/quote] Hire someone to come into our house to get him dressed every day? To sit next to him in school and make him put his papers away in the folder? To enter his brain and make him not lie about handing in work that is late, incomplete and/or missing entirely? To sit there and force him to use the planner I buy him every single year that he won’t even open? I hate this. I hate every single minute of this. [/quote]
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