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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stay in the bathroom and start with what needs to get done. Start and the top and move down. So shampoo, conditioner, face wash, body soap and scrub all of the parts. Then she gets a three (?) minute timer to finish rinsing everything and get out.

Tell her she’s wasting water and time.

When she can do it all on her own reliably, you don’t have to be in there anymore. [/quote]

OP here. Thanks. This is what we did all last year and I thought we'd gotten to the point where we could leave but I guess not. Ugh.

[b]I sometimes feel like all I do is tell her what to do. [/b]Hang up your coat, get out your homework, come eat dinner, straighten up your room, take a shower, get ready for bed, okay lights out in 30, okay lights out. She's a good kid and mostly does what we ask but I was hoping we could get a bit more independence this year so I don't have to feel like such a task master every single night. I'm doing all this for multiple kids while also getting my own evening chores done and sometimes my head just feels so exhausted from having to juggle it all that the idea of spending 10 minutes babysitting a shower is like.... aaaaaaah! I cannot.[/quote]

Previously you said that your kid didn't have trouble in other areas of her life. But you telling her what to do all the time means you are compensating for her deficits. Which at 8 still seems within the range of normal... but at some point it won't be. An evaluation for ADHD is in her future, OP, if she doesn't develop a better organization within the next 2 years. 10 years old is a great time to be evaluated, because it means you can request accommodations at school when your kid start middle school.

Also, if you need to micromanage all of your children, it's clear ADHD runs in the family.

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