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[quote=Anonymous]19:37 here.

Another thought: your kid should have a set daily number of hours she will sit in the library with books open. Pick a number that is doable to start: four? Don’t worry just yet about what she’s doing while there. It’s a seat-in-butt number, that’s all. That can help ADHDers, because it’s one number, vs. two dozen assignments each of which have many, many steps.

The dancer Twyla Tharp had a pretty famous quote about the importance of just putting yourself in the place where the work can get done, rather than focusing on the work itself:

“I begin each day of my life with a ritual: I wake up at 5.30 A.M., put on my workout clothes, my leg warmers, my sweatshirts, and my hat. I walk outside my Manhattan home, hail a taxi, and tell the driver to take me to the Pumping Iron gym at 91st Street and First Avenue, where I work out for two hours. The ritual is not the stretching and weight training I put my body through each morning at the gym; the ritual is the cab. The moment I tell the driver where to go I have completed the ritual.”

Sitting down in the library and opening one book is the ADHD student’s equivalent of hailing the cab.[/quote]

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