W He almost always forgets to bring his books home to study and He's really disorganized with his school work. But what's weird is if I ask him to help me clean he is a master at organizing things and putting things away. His future wife is going to love his cleaning skills!
Hopefully your child will make the cutoff of the gifted program and that will solve everything. Was the testing done one to one or as part of a group. If it was a group test, remember that your child my be gifted, or even unusually gifted, and still not score well on the group test - they are good for screening kids in but not for screening kids out.
A book on teaching your child to do what you tell him is 'Transforming the Difficult Child Workbook' by Lisa Bravo.
A book on understanding the nuances of executive function skills is 'Smart but Scattered.' It's perfectly possible to be very strong in some areas of organization, such as making an over all plan and putting things away according to that plan, while weak in other areas, such as timesense, or deciding which books need to be brought home.
If you want, keep a journal of which organizational skills are causing him problems at this point in his life, and figure out which on is most important to solve. Then start a thread about 'How can I get my child to do X' and we'll all pitch in ideas.
I'm curious about what motivates your son. That's another great thing to actually observe and track.
Love and More love,
Grinity
