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Focus, starting, and ADHD

Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.

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Your sense of time A minute In a change Clear all

Theme · Your sense of time

Systems for daily life 3 Medication and how it works 2 Your sense of time 1 Self-compassion 1

How long you have · A minute

A minute 1 Five minutes 1 Longer 1

When · In a change

Any ordinary day 14 After a row 1 Under stress 1 In a change 1

Instead of one warning, give several: half an hour, fifteen minutes, five, one. The child then has time to arrive at the ending rather than having it dropped on them.

A single warning asks a child to track the gap on their own, which is the thing they cannot do. A ladder of prompts turns a stretch of time into a…

A minuteYour sense of timeADHD skillsQur’an 36:39