Disorganized high school students

Many parents of high school students often tell me that they walk a thin line between assisting their disorganized child and enabling him/her. I empathize with these parents since that line can be very fine. However, when a disorganized child struggles to find the strategies and techniques that work for him, parents need to step in and loan their child some executive functioning.

What am I talking about? Well, if your very disorganized high school student is having a difficult time handing in homework, there is nothing wrong with either following up with the teacher to check in on the homework OR checking in with the student to make sure he put his homework in a folder /binder where he’ll remember it. Until organizing strategies have been embedded in the students, the adults will have to be involved.