In this episode, Laila Alieh shares practical, compassionate strategies for helping children with ADHD maintain an organized bedroom while highlighting the parent’s crucial role in modeling and maintaining the system. With her signature blend of personal insight and professional experience, Laila walks listeners through actionable tips that reduce overwhelm, support executive functioning, and foster a more peaceful home environment.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Discover why modeling organization is essential to teaching it

• Learn how to break a child’s room into clear, functional zones

• Understand the power of visible storage and how to use it effectively

• Hear how limiting choices reduces decision fatigue and supports focus

• Explore simple daily and weekly reset routines for lasting habits

• Get creative ideas for making clean-up fun and rewarding

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Welcome to the Launching Board with ADHD Podcast, a podcast dedicated to empowering moms to navigate life with ADHD while finding clarity, relief, and holistic solutions for themselves, their children, and their families.

Here we'll explore practical tips, sustainable strategies, and the support you need to thrive in your daily life and unlock your full potential.

I'm your host, Leila Allie, here to guide you on this transformative journey.

Let's dive in.

Hey there.

Before we dive in today's episode, I wanted to hop on and share with you all that I help students overcome their ADHD struggles.

When it comes to day to day life and their studies.

I call myself an ADHD coach and tutor for students.

It's my mission to help the next generation reach their full potential.

Learning to use your ADHD as your superpower, which is something I love to call it, can be overwhelming.

But with the right tools, you can become invincible and reach for the stars.

If your child has ADHD and needs support, then I want to invite you to hop on a free discovery call with me.

I'm happy to hear what you need and discover if and how I can help you.

I look forward to connecting with you.

All right, now let's get back to the show.

Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Launching Forward with ADHD podcast.

Today I want to go over how to organize a child's room with adhd.

And I have lots of personal experience about this topic and how I've helped my clients with it, but most importantly, the outcome of having an organized room.

So let's dive in.

All right, so the most important thing is like, okay, what are the facts?

So here's the truth.

You know, children with ADHD often struggle with executive functioning skills such as planning, prioritizing, and task completion.

And with that said, it can make organizing and maintaining a tidy room really challenging.

So by simplifying your environment and establishing a clear system, you can really reduce the overwhelm faster and develop more independence this way.

This is why it's so important that I implement my freebies like such as the Minimalism with adhd.

It helps reduce decision fatigue and helps you execute your executive functioning skills.

And so with that said, this is an episode that is not just for the child.

This episode is for the parent.

Now, why do we say the parent?

Well, the reason is that guys, you're, you're their teacher, they're learning from you.

And so if you don't have an organized room, they don't see the point of why they should do it.

And it's not because they have ADHD and you don't is because we're a team in this, guys, and you want to represent that team of what you expect by doing it yourself.

And therefore they have to do it themselves because they're in your house.

So here is the thing.

I've had clients before that had told me, you know, can you just make sure my daughter makes her bed?

And I said, yeah, sure, absolutely.

And then I find out that she's not doing it.

And then I ask the parents, well, like I go back to them and I say, are you actually making your bed too?

And they're like, oh, no, I don't.

I'm like, well, then how do you expect her to make her bed?

So it's a clear, definitive expectation that if you are trying to have your child do this, you need to do this as well.

Therefore it will stick.

So what are the tips that I have on how to organize your child's room with adhd?

How can your child be organized?

Well, then the first tip is you want to create a clear zone.

Separate the room into specific areas.

One for sleeping, one for playing.

Basically have a section for toys, different colors, and that helps you make zones in your room.

You need to have a home for everything.

Where is your homework pile?

Where is your sleeping section?

Where is your clothes section?

By making that possible, it's allowing you to slowly clear out some cobwebs.

Number two is use open invisible storage.

You know, choose open shelving and clear bins so the child can see where their things are.

And there's a saying that if they don't see it, it never existed.

So avoid the deep drawers and the closed boxes that hide items because that can cause frustration and they may not know where their things are.

Number three is limit choices.

You want to have a few items in their room, such as toys, books and outfits.

That way, again, it reduces the decision fatigue and it stores extra things.

And so you allow yourself to, you know, know where things are.

And by storing extras somewhere else, rotating them regularly can also reduce overwhelm and decision fatigue.

So, for example, when I say limit choices is limit their choices.

They may have a lot of toys, they may have a lot of items, but limit what they can see and rotate things as they need to.

And this is depends on their phase of life.

You know, right now I'm doing that with my kids because they're one and three years old.

I'm rotating toys and they think it's brand new.

And the same goes with my elementary students.

We want to Rotate things out because they don't need to see everything.

It gets redundant and it doesn't become enjoyable.

And the next tip is you want to label everything.

You want to basically have it in simple words, nice pictures, labels on bins and shelves.

And consistency in the labeling is key too.

So try to use the same color pen, same color background sticker to label things.

That way it doesn't look confusing.

Again, your eyes can play tricks on you.

So it's important to establish that routine.

And that leads to.

The next tip is establishing a daily cleaning routine.

You want to have a nice little reset list that every time, every day, such as the, you know, five minutes a day they get to make their bed when they wake up.

And then right before they go to bed they, they get their clothes set up for the day and then they know how worth their clothes are when they wake up.

And it's just very consistent.

It's now becoming something they just do.

But in the beginning it's steps that they have to follow to make it happen.

So how can you get your own kids involved, is the next question.

Well, sometimes I like to put a checklist and honestly I put a checklist for everything and it just helps me.

It just really helps me.

So before or dinner or bedtime, you want to probably work with your child to put the toys back in their bins, put their books back on the shelf.

Don't just have you do it after they go to bed.

That's going to be exhausting.

Have them put dirty clothes in the hamper, straight in the bed, throw away any trash.

And then for a weekly reset, you know, you can choose a day of the week and then you can rotate toys, swap things out, wipe the shelves and the desk and pick an item to donate.

And I have a rule in our house that whatever we bring in our house, we have to get rid of something.

It could be even a paperclip, but it's just something that has to find a new home for.

And you gotta get make room for that new item to come into your home and then organizing your clothes, folding them, putting them in the right place.

And here's some tips also to make it fun.

You want to probably set a 5 minute timer or a 10 minute timer and then see who can beat the clock, who can get the most done.

And you can even play your favorite song, dance and clean up and then offer a little reward as to what they got done.

And then you get to enjoy the rest of the day tidied and organized.

So there are plenty of articles about this and I will link them in the blog on my website and you will see the elaborate detail of what other people are saying regarding having an organized room and how to keep it tidy.

And I hope this was really helpful because you just have no idea what it's like to kind of go into a room that has lots of clutter.

You think that's normal, it doesn't bother you.

But then the moment you switch into an organized room, you can start to see it and feel it.

So I hope this was helpful.

And this was an episode that talks a lot about organization and tidying and decluttering.

And if you want to dive into your journey of decluttering, I highly recommend you download my freebie called Minimalism for adhd.

It is an excellent guide for you to go through your items in case you're debating whether you should add keep an item, sell it or donate it, or toss all four options and and go from there.

But I hope this was helpful and I'll talk to you guys later.

Enjoy.

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