Tuesday, 03 May 2011
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Messy Bedrooms, Vanishing Toys and Autism
So we are still trying to work with Heidi to keep her room clean, remember this post, where I talked about setting up a picture list of how to keep a room clean?
Now Heidi is doing great at putting her dirty clothing in the laundry and rubbish in the bin. However, all her possessions seem to be emptied out of her drawers and stored on the floor. No matter how often we go through packing up together and no matter how I break it down for her, the drawers end up empty and Heidi’s possessions are scattered across the floor.
One morning Heidi came to my bedroom in tears saying:
“I losted my bedroom cos I closed de door.”
A lengthy discussion with several dali-esque detours resulted in Heidi drawing my attention to the door being white, the walls being white and once the door was closed it all looked the same and she could not find her bedroom, it was ‘lost’ ‘gone’. Hence the distressed tears, her bedroom had vanished.
Which made me ponder if the reason that Heidi struggled so much with putting her things away was that once they were in a shut drawer they had disappeared ‘vanished’
Heidi has two sets of drawers in her room, that we purchased to match her bunk bed:
I have made up PECS labels and used contact to stick them to the drawers. Let us hope they survive for longer than previous labels.
Heidi wanted her window like Annie’s so we took the net curtain away and moved the drawers away from the windows which gives her a little reading corner and freedom to look out the window at the world going by.
But Heidi’s bedroom is still a disaster zone and the mess frustrates me as things get stepped on and broken. So I’m trying to figure out storage solutions for Heidi that work better than the drawers, perhaps open shelves like Annie has. Or maybe some of these clear storage boxes from Howards Storage World
But not sure it will work, or if Heidi is just going to be a floordrobe person.
Would love to hear your suggestions.
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- About Me: I am Marita and I blog at - http://leechbabe.wordpress.com/. I am a mother of two amazing girls, Annie and Heidi. I am a wife to wonderful man called Ralph. I am myself, diagnosed with Crohns disease in my late teens, interested in cross stitch, sci-fi and fantasy. This blog started out as a cross stitch blog but has evolved over the years to cover most aspects of life in my home. In May 2007 my youngest daughter was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism.
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Comments (7)
Kids' room are very hard to maintain it clean. They love to scatter their toys since they are not used to put them in the place they got it before. We should teach them how to be organize even though they are quite young.
That is really a disaster. I think you should extend your patience, maintaining the cleanliness of children's room is really a hard thing to do.
What a nice bedroom! I'm building my house at this moment and I had not idea how to decorate my son's room, but you now give and idea... I'll go to Buy Cialis and some stuff I need for lunch and then I will modify a little bit the style of this room.Â
wow that room is a real mess! but is nothing rare when we talk about a child that suffer this condition, in some cases in the rooms of those children apppear inclusive Generic Viagra vials, how is this possible?
Well yeah in a review about kids behavior in online pharmacy reviews many people said that we must take care our children in a proper way teaching them respect and some other values and have order in their life, starting with something simple as the bed room.
Thanks a lot for the suggestions, in xl pharmacy there's a review about how must be the rooms of autistic kids, i don't have an autistic kid but my neighbors does and i know thats sometimes is really hard for them, thanks
It is quite normal that children don't want to chores. It is quite hard to make them to understand. I read on viagra online articles that there is another way. It is with small punishment. it is to sit them on the couch. for the time that it equals their age in minutes. For example if she or he is 4 year. she or he will be there for 4 minutes at the same spot in the couch.