Hi Reader,

You've pinned the chart. Color-coded, laminated, genuinely gorgeous.

And then — day four, maybe day five — it disappeared. Buried under a stack of mail, or the kids' school papers, or whatever else lands on that counter.

If that's happened in your house, I want to say this clearly: you didn't do anything wrong. Most chore charts fail for a reason that has nothing to do with effort. They're built for someone else's brain. And when ADHD and dyslexia are both in the mix, a generic system was never going to hold — it needed its own approach from the start.

This week I put out both a video and a full companion post walking through the actual fix. Not a fancier chart. Not more color-coding. The fix is about where the chart lives, and what to do when your kid can't read it fast enough to use it.

🎥 Watch the video:

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​📖 Read the full breakdown: https://www.learninginadistractedworld.com/post/chore-chart-for-kids-with-adhd-and-dyslexia-the-point-of-performance-fix-that-actually-works​

Inside, I cover:

• Why "point of performance" (a concept from ADHD researcher Russell Barkley) matters more than how the chart looks
• The research behind keeping each step to 3-4 items — and why more than that actually works against the exact working memory you're trying to support
• What to do when reading the chart is the real barrier, not understanding it
• A couple of low-cost moves to get ahead of the week without buying anything new

If this is hitting close to home, I'd love to hear where your version of this breaks down. I'm asking that exact question inside the free community right now — Join the conversation →​

Talk soon,
Kelly

P.S. If you missed the first post in this series — on why mornings fall apart even when you do everything right — you can catch up here: POST 1 LINK​

Kelly

National Board Certified Teacher · Reading Specialist · Learning in a Distracted World

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