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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the basic techniques is a notebook with all actions and due outs.  If it's a habit to write down anything/everything that needs to be done and cross it off once it's done, it goes a long way.  For large tasks, you break them down into individual actions that can be written down and crossed off.

The key is actually DOING this.  Adults with ADHD have a system like this, they have someone in their life who is doing it for them, or they are failing.  For OP, the question is how much do you want to invest?  You can certainly keep acting like your nanny's notebook or you could try to teach her to do this on her own, but at the end of the day she has to be the one to do it.

(There are a lot of other techniques like setting up autopayments on EVERYTHING and effectively maintaining and using a calendar, but the notebook is the first big one).
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+1. My grandmother struggled to teach me to write everything down as a kid/teen, but I just viewed it as another thing to do, and I constantly lost my post its, notebooks and/or pencils.

Then I got a smart phone around 25.  It’s small enough to go in my pocket, bra or purse, and I never lose it.  I have note pad, alarms, timers, google calendar.  Chrome always has 10+ tabs open, nothing gets closed until I finish with it.

Lots of parents want to limit tech with their kids, and I get it.  From the get-go, I’m clear that my phone is the way I stay organized and I teach kids that it’s a tool.  I’m also clear with everyone that tools can be misused if you aren’t careful.[/quote]

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