Supporting your child’s Education: Lessons from an ADHD Parent Coach
My youngest child graduated from High School last week. It’s just two years since my oldest son graduated. It’s a mixed bag of emotions. It feels thrilling that my children are officially adults now with that part of their life behind them. It’s daunting as they...
From Struggles to Success: Reflections on getting my child active and thriving
The ADHD brain needs exercise even more than the neurotypical brain. We all understand the value of exercise but finding a way of making it part of our daily lives is really challenging. This is even more true if you haven’t found an exercise you enjoy or were not...
ADHD Parenting: 6 Tips For the rest of the Summer holiday
Summer can be a challenging time for parents raising children with ADHD. With longer days, increased freedom, and often less structure, it can be difficult to stay on top of managing ADHD symptoms. That's why it's so important for ADHD parents to have support during...
Why am I interested in the new ADHD clinical guidelines? 👀
It won’t surprise you to know I have a very bias interest in the first Australian evidence based clinical guidelines for ADHD. (Yes, you read that right. It’s the FIRST ever guidelines for ADHD in Australia which is astonishing and awesome at the same time!). My...
The 6 Parts of Executive Functioning
ADHD should probably be known as Executive Functioning deficit disorder. The ADHD brain has weaknesses when it comes to Executive Functioning. What is Executive Functioning? Read on to learn more. This image breaks down the parts of Executive functioning. Each part...
You won’t believe how much it helps ADHD parents in school holidays to do this!
Make time visible. Your child with ADHD has time blindness. This means that getting two or three weeks school holidays means very little to him because he can’t really visualise what that look like. Put a calendar up somewhere central and talk about it every night....
5 Tips for study with ADHD
It’s that time of year – exam time for many students in High school. I thought I’d share some study skill which work for my son who is currently in Year 12 preparing for ATAR exams. Making the content visual The ADHD brain has little tolerance for boring, routine,...
5 steps for keeping the peace between siblings (with ADHD)
A common scenario I hear from my clients is how difficult it is when your children are left together because sooner or later, they will end up fighting and this ends up in tears and crying. This can be really stressful for a parent who is trying get stuff done...
Seven Tips to Manage Technology Use
Our role as parents is to support our children to learn to manage technology and not for technology to rule our child’s lives. However, millions of dollars have been spend in ensuring that technology is the most attractive and alluring to our brains. For children...
Two Ways to Connect
Staying connected with other parents at this unsettling time is absolutely vital. We can support each other and share ideas of how to live this new life. Here are some ways to connect: 1. Virtual coffee catch up with Susan Every Friday, starting 03/04/20, I’ll be...