Step 2 - The Simple Morning Routine

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1. Transcribed by https://otter.ai - 1 - Step 2 - The Simple Morning Routine_otter_ai SUMMARY KEYWORDS shoes, kids, give, faster, estimate, adhd, estimation, stacking, double, minutes, extra, panicking, door, tasks, cooperative, space, downhill, necessarily, count, meltdown SPEAKERS Patricia Sung Patricia Sung 00:00 All right, our next step is to estimate how long it is going to take us to do each of these steps. Now, this is the hard part for us. Generally speaking, people with ADHD don't have a very good sense of time. So when you say like, Hey, how long is it going to put to put on like the kids shoes? My I'm like, oh, yeah, two minutes. It doesn't take two minutes isn't very generous estimation that my kids are being extremely cooperative that day. And they know where their shoes are, right? So I want you to write down the time that you think it's going to take and then I want you to double it. Because you probably didn't estimate Well, sorry, not sorry, just being honest, then I also want you to count for it, do you have any kids who might have ADHD, are they going to need extra time as well, then you're gonna double it again. So on our shoe example, it does not take two minutes or four minutes, it takes eight minutes to get everyone's shoes on and out the door. Now, I know you're thinking is like, Patricia, all these things like adding up, it's, it's too much, I'm gonna have to get up at 3am to get all these kids out the door. Trust me, I know that feels like a lot. Keep in mind that for one, some of these tasks are gonna go on simultaneously. So we aren't necessarily stacking all of the time amounts on top of each other. Patricia Sung 01:11 Number two, is that we're giving ourselves extra time, knowing that it's better for us to have space to deal with someone's meltdown or can't find the shoe or whatever's going on than to not and then we start panicking and yelling at everybody. And it all goes downhill, right? So we want to give enough space that we have time for those emergencies. And then number three is it as your family gets used to this routine, it will go faster and faster. You'll figure out where you can cut back. We don't need as much time here. This is more efficient here. All that kind of stuff like it will come together and go much faster. But at the beginning, we want to give ourselves extra buffer time and know that it's going to get easier, faster, less stressful as we move forward. But please trust me give the generous time estimations now. Okay, that was double check to make sure I didn't forget anything. Yeah. All right. Good.