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[quote=Anonymous]OP here, I like the suggestion of minimizing stuff. She is at that tough tween age in between her stuffed animals and growing interest in more grown up things like drawing, so markers, pencils, paper, etc runneth over.

With my decision to quit full-time work came this idea that I would be home to help her get this under control. Now even I feel like a failure because I can't seem to help. She welcomes the help, and is so appreciative when I spend my time getting her room liveable, but then she can't maintain it.  I get frustrated, feeling like I have wasted my time while neglecting the bigger cleaning and household management issues.

I used to think I was enabling her by helping, until I realized she just can't do it herself. I need to learn how to teach her these skills. But, I have to manage down to a level I can't sustain.  Let's not talk about the number of times I have had to drop a forgotten lunchbox off at school. Again - enabling? where I have landed is no, not enabling, because, with her food issues (texture, taste, etc), she would not eat a school lunch and then the problems related to no food/blood sugar are worse than my taking her lunch to school.[/quote]

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