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The Team Effort (International Day of Families 2024)

May 15, 2024

Any family unit works best as a team. Each person with their own roles and responsibilities, with some crossover. People jumping in to cover those who are struggling or overloaded by other things such as work or illness. The ability to ask for help, and be helped. A busy, efficient team. Obviously this is the ideal. Most family units experience some degree of imbalance or inequality. But overall, whether it’s working towards Maggie Dent’s “‘We’[…]

Doom Boxes

October 9, 2023

If you aren’t familiar with Doom Boxes, and you regularly encounter issues with tidiness in your home, your life is about to change… Probably because it’s been the spring school holidays here in Australia, I’m hearing and seeing more and more exasperated parents freaking out over the state of their kids’ bedrooms. When they’re busy with school and extracurricular activities and homework, bedrooms can be chaotic enough; but when certain neurodivergencies bunker down in their[…]

Q&A: How do I organise someone with ADHD?

May 15, 2023

Q. My daughter has been diagnosed with ADHD and is on [medication] daily. This has helped with a lot of aspects of her ADHD but she is still very disorganised and untidy. We have tried habit trackers and reward charts and bribery but nothing works. How do I force her to follow some routines? – dad of daughter, aged 8-11 A. Long story short, you don’t force anything. Ever. I think the vast majority of[…]