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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My add kid procrastinates incessantly. He will spend an entire day putting off writing a one page paper. (He is in HS) Are there any good tools, tips, books to help him overcome this? I know laptops and phones are a procrastinators dream, but he uses it to write the paper. [/quote]

I have a younger child (middle school) but we still use a timer. 15 minutes of work, and then 15 minutes of goofing off (preferably doing something active). No, when writing a paper 15 minutes doesn't get you terribly far, but it gets you farther than bouncing up and down on your chair and doing nothing. I expect her to have written at least one sentence, found another point of support in a book, something in that 15 minute time period. It helps her to know she "only" has 15 minutes and then she gets a break.

I also still help her break down steps. Sitting down in front of a blank page can be so overwhelming. Providing her with a list of steps can be really helpful - brain storm topic, write outline, write topic sentence, write supporting facts, write closing sentence, add details, spell check, grammar check, read out loud, check against rubric, make any remaining corrects, is this work you're proud of or is it work you're just happy to be done with? (That last bit is specifically for my child since we're working with her to be able to identify when she's done a minimal effort job and when she's put in more effort - as long as it meets the rubric she can hand it in, but she personally needs to be able to identify whether what she produced was her best effort or not.)[/quote]

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