ADHD and Messiness
Does your child have ADHD? Is his or her room a complete disaster? It's not a coincidence. ADHD and messiness often go hand in hand. After all, if a child has ...
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So you go into a kid with ADHD's room, you cannot see the floor, there's so much stuff. They run out of clothes, because if they are a teenager they haven't washed their clothes, because they've got all over the floor. And kids will get to a point, or parents, where the room just gets to be too messy. I call that the critical mass. And so, they'll go and clean their whole room, but they'll get messy by the next day, or even a couple hours, and it's very frustrating for parents and kids. So what I recommend, especially for teenagers, is just shut the door. Maybe have a couple rules that you can't leave any food in your room, because that's just yucky. And in the case of, you know, shutting the door, you know again, it may bother you, but if the door is ...
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So you go into a kid with ADHD's room, you cannot see the floor, there's so much stuff. They run out of clothes, because if they are a teenager they haven't washed their clothes, because they've got all over the floor. And kids will get to a point, or parents, where the room just gets to be too messy. I call that the critical mass. And so, they'll go and clean their whole room, but they'll get messy by the next day, or even a couple hours, and it's very frustrating for parents and kids. So what I recommend, especially for teenagers, is just shut the door. Maybe have a couple rules that you can't leave any food in your room, because that's just yucky. And in the case of, you know, shutting the door, you know again, it may bother you, but if the door is ...
