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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I need help organizing myself :) I'm so not an organized person and neither was my mom, and I WISH I had grown up in a house where it was emphasized more. You are not enabling if you do it WITH her, only if you do it for her.

Im certainly no expert, but i  your DD's case I would definitely purge her room as much as possible.  Move out of season clothes to a storage area, put art/office type supplies in a common area, have her pick her favorite stuffed animals/dolls/whatever she plays with and put the rest in a playroom.  Streamline her bed linens so it's just a washable comforter that she has to pull up and flatten out, no extra sheets.

I also like the idea of checklists and you do it with her for 5-10 minutes each day so it doesn't get overwhelming.  Now I need a checklist for myself :) [/quote]

The checklist shouldn't be a separate task. It should be something she does as she goes through her day to keep herself focused. It breaks her activity down into smaller subtasks and helps her remember to do each part of the task.  After she does it with a checklist for awhile, it will become routine and then she'll do it without the checklist. You can start doing the checklist with her, but as she uses it more and more, she should be able to do it alone. Eventually, she should be able to do most things without the checklist.

The checklist can be take a few forms. I like to put them on a white board and then check them off as I go along. She could use colored markers. It could also go in a booklet/planner/dayrunner with a list for each day and she could mark those off as she goes along. I think I would type up a list and have a copy place turn into a notebook so that she has one checklist for each day. (Sort of like the agendas my kids' school uses). 
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