Today is the Friday before Spring (March) Break. Remind your kids to bring home their backpacks, gym clothes and shoes. Take time to go through the backpack with your child, to ensure notes aren’t going missing and homework is being completed. While they’re home for the week is an ideal time to check that their [...]
Archive for ADD – ADHD
TOY AND BOOK STORAGE TIPS
All week, we have been talking about toys. Today we are going to show you some samples of different ways to store toys and books. I am all for labelling toy bins and containers with pictures in addition to words. Whether you use baskets, bins. buckets, ensure that the child will use them [...]
Help for Children with Learning Differences
While preparing for presenting the Organizer in the School programme, I’ve just finished reading a series of books written for children, parents and teachers, and published by Wildberry Productions. These eight books (soon to be 10) introduce the lives of children with various disorders, syndromes and learning disabilities. Each book brings to light the experiences [...]
Guest Post: Back in School Checklist
This Monday’s guest post is from Danielle LaPointe from Oxford Learning Kingston in Kingston, Ontario. Reposted from August 2010 Now that school is back in session, ensure that students are on track and hitting the important milestones with this list: Communicate with teachers WHY? Don’t wait until the first report card to find out that [...]
Organizing with ADHD
I am a Professional Organizer who specializes in working with clients with ADHD. I find that some of my clients, particularly women, are just overwhelmed by having to work and live in a traditionally organized world. Those of us with ADHD (I myself have been diagnosed with Inattentive ADHD) try to work EAST – doing [...]
