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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Good ideas.

I like the idea of data tracking. I also need to be up much earlier.

If they don’t do screens, everyone fusses. They are not easy kids especially in the morning. If they sit at the table and eat breakfast, without me there (I’m getting ready) they’ll fight.

I let them watch tv while I’m getting ready.

I think I need to get up earlier and then be able to monitor from 6:45-7:15 and move everyone along. It’s a big anxious, adhd mess. [/quote]

Good luck. I suggested the data tracking. I have ADHD and thought you might from your subject line. Besides helping to figure out times to do things and when to wake up, what having the data has done for me is it allows me to pivot (triage) in real time. If something has gone wrong, I know what to drop to stay on track. Maybe it means eating in the car, or older ones putting their shoes on in the car, or doing someone's hair between drop offs if I know there's time.

It also tells me when I can and can't add anything else to the schedule. For instance, yesterday one of my kids got up early, so I let them play a game but only until their normal wakeup time. I knew the day before that playing the game would torpedo the schedule.

Time blindness is a real thing in ADHD. Having less time can actually help some people with focus because you [i]have to[/i] keep doing only the tasks to get out the door. Things fall apart when you think you can just do this one little thing. As such, getting up at the last minute and having less time helps one of my kids. Another must have leisurely time to read at the breakfast table, but they're a morning person.

For you, try to go to bed earlier. Unfortunately at least for me, this doesn't start 10 minutes before my desired bedtime like I believed for a long time. It starts with choice I make like 90 minutes before. I sort of took data on why I was always going to bed later than my goal time too.

Use data as facts (it really does take this long to do the thing or the same thing tends to throw us off) NOT to judge yourself.[/quote]

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