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[quote=Anonymous]Do you have her clean her room regularly, or just let it build up until it's overwhelmingly awful every few months?  My mom did that, and I had no organizational skills at all and executive functioning issues, and then would expect me to do hours worth of work so I could still do a pre-scheduled activity seemingly on a whim.  I never knew when she was going to say "this all has to be picked up or you can't do xyz", and I would sit for hours in my room reading instead of cleaning because I was so overwhelmed.  By the time I was eleven or twelve, I would just say "well then I guess I'm just not going to [activity] because I had so little confidence in how to go about picking up a room that seemed like a colossal task.  My mom would always offer to help when I seemed really frustrated, but she would nitpick every move I made as being the wrong way to go about it, which made me feel like a total failure.

It took me until I moved out to figure out how to keep a room together on my own, by following a system one of my friends uses (pick up all clothes one day, all trash the next, books the third day, etc.---one focus every day keeps things tidy.[/quote]

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