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Get him to participate.
My wife used to have this routine: “Have you taken your meds? Have you packed your lunch? Have you got your buss pass? Building Pass? Do you have your ID card?…
By the time she reached the MIDDLE of the list, she could have said “Have you warmed up the Flying Saucer?” and I would have answered “Yes” without skipping a beat. So, she started asking me “What don’t you want to forget today? Then we would work on that one thing until it was not forgotten.
We ADHD’rs have problems focusing on a myriad of things, and focusing on one thing to the exclusion of all others. Try to tap into that “focus on one thing” trait and see what happens.
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