Making discipline or punishment make sense.

My 7 almost 8 year old had MID, so I haven’t had much responsibility put on him that I would if he were a “typical” child. Anyway, I’m saying this because now that his language has developed tremendously and he is older I am catching him in little lies or on him more about cleaning up after himself, safety awareness, following directions without getting distracted. It’s hard bc of his disability but I also believe he is capable of learning the things I am teaching him and be successful at it. I am having a hard to making the purpose of these tasks to make sense. Like he likes a clean area and knows cleaning up is what you’re supposed to do, it’s just not automatic. Where did I go wrong? 😭 I’m trying to be patient and consistent, OMG it’s hard.