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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 198230"><p>BBK - </p><p></p><p>Do you break it down for her when it comes to cleaning her room? I'm thinking it just becomes overwhelming and then it becomes too much. </p><p></p><p>What I have done in the past - and just did today since Wynter has been feeling so overwhelmed - is sit in her room with her and say, ok, first pick up all the trash you can see. And I'd have a garbage bag in the room hanging on the doorknob so it was easy. Then once the trash was picked up, move on to the next item...clothes, dolls, makeup, whatever. But, the important part is to make it one category at a time.</p><p></p><p>If I would tell Wynter at that age - and up until recently to be honest - she would have no idea where to start. Part of the executive functions thing. And a HUGE meltdown would ensue. I would end up frustrated and angry and end up doing it myself, becoming more and more angry by the stuff I was finding scatteried and buried all around her room and floor. When I finally learned about the executive function stuff, it was like a lightbulb went off and I was able to approach it differently and without getting so frustrated. It went from thinking she was just be willfully disobedient to understanding that she just can't break the process down into doable steps.</p><p></p><p>It's kind of like if you were asked to single handedly clean up the mess from Ike. Where would you start? That's kind of how our kids with executive dysfunction see things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 198230"] BBK - Do you break it down for her when it comes to cleaning her room? I'm thinking it just becomes overwhelming and then it becomes too much. What I have done in the past - and just did today since Wynter has been feeling so overwhelmed - is sit in her room with her and say, ok, first pick up all the trash you can see. And I'd have a garbage bag in the room hanging on the doorknob so it was easy. Then once the trash was picked up, move on to the next item...clothes, dolls, makeup, whatever. But, the important part is to make it one category at a time. If I would tell Wynter at that age - and up until recently to be honest - she would have no idea where to start. Part of the executive functions thing. And a HUGE meltdown would ensue. I would end up frustrated and angry and end up doing it myself, becoming more and more angry by the stuff I was finding scatteried and buried all around her room and floor. When I finally learned about the executive function stuff, it was like a lightbulb went off and I was able to approach it differently and without getting so frustrated. It went from thinking she was just be willfully disobedient to understanding that she just can't break the process down into doable steps. It's kind of like if you were asked to single handedly clean up the mess from Ike. Where would you start? That's kind of how our kids with executive dysfunction see things. [/QUOTE]
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