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[quote=Anonymous]My child is a little younger than yours but I'll share what has worked for our family.   Set up a weekly 1 hour planning session for family (we do ours on Sunday).   This time is for clearing backpack of junk, organizing who is going where what days and going over major projects/assignments for school.  My child is several years younger but we use that as a way to model how I plan out my week.

I actually use my calendar and reserve times to do things important, and show him and you might work with your coach to help set up a system to plan time that works better for your daughter.   It will be a skill that will be super important as she progresses to college.   The more she is part of the system, and helps design it, the better.

In terms of jumping in to prevent failure, I think its important to not take on too much that is on her shoulders.   She will remember and know you will be there to fix it.   Let her deal with a bad grade and use it to learn from.  So after she gets back that D...use it to talk about how she could have done things differently, how she could have planned better, etc.    Not saying you let her drop out of school or fail out but a bad grade on one paper is probably worth the lesson.

For your coach, do you have refreshed goals and focus for your work together this year with your daughter.   Better to have 3 big goals then to spend this expensive time together just putting out fires or trying to keep her on task.  So maybe the major focus areas are :  Planning time/schedule, keeping organized, and strategies to help organize/plan writing assignments.  There are a lot of good online tools out there.   Just some thoughts from another mom to child with ADHD inattentive and low working memory.  [/quote]

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