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Back to School with ADHD: What Parents Need to Know

August 13, 2026

What if your ADHD child doesn't need to get better at school? What if school needs to get better at understanding your child? As back-to-school season begins, it's easy to slip right back into the old worries: The missing assignments. The difficult mornings. The calls from the teacher. The unfinished homework. The grades. But this year, I want you to try something different. Instead of asking, "How do I make my child more successful at school?" let's ask: "What does my child need to thrive?" ...

ADHD and Anxiety By Overcoming the Wall of Awful - With Brendan Mahan

July 21, 2026

Your child is sitting in front of their homework. The instructions are clear. The task may only take ten minutes. But they cannot begin. From the outside, it can look like procrastination, defiance, or a lack of motivation. Inside, your child may be facing what ADHD coach and author Brendan Mahan calls the Wall of Awful: an emotional barrier built from past struggles, shame, guilt, rejection, disappointment, and overwhelm. Before your child can complete the task, they may first have to get pa...

Why ADHD Parenting Feels So Hard (And the Shift That Changes Everything)

July 08, 2026

If you've ever found yourself crying in the car after another hard day… wondering why nothing you've tried seems to work… or feeling like you're failing your child… This episode is for you. As a special education teacher, I knew the strategies. As an ADHD mom… I couldn't access them. In this deeply personal episode, I share the story that changed everything for me. The day I realized there weren't just two overwhelmed children in the back seat. There were four overwhelmed nervous systems. Tha...