ADHD Fidget Toys: Finding What Actually Works for You

ADHD Fidget Toys: Finding What Actually Works for You

I want to tell you a cute little story about my company. When I first joined four years ago, we had a company retreat to Minneapolis. I was super nervous, and I didn’t know if my weird would gel with everybody’s weird.  I remember we had a big meeting that was...
The ADHD After-School Crash: Understanding Transitions and Homework Struggles

The ADHD After-School Crash: Understanding Transitions and Homework Struggles

School is starting back up, and with it comes the return of backpacks, lunchboxes, homework folders… and the after-school crash. As everyone settles back into the school routine, you may start noticing something familiar: your child walks through the door after school...
ADHD and Screen Time: 5 Ways to Interrupt the Doom Loop

ADHD and Screen Time: 5 Ways to Interrupt the Doom Loop

Arthur Brooks, a professor at Harvard Business School, is a social scientist and one of the leading authorities on human happiness. I have been reading his book, The Meaning of Your Life, and wanted to share a bit from his chapter titled “Interrupt the Doom...
Why You Keep Repeating Yourself (And What To Do Instead)

Why You Keep Repeating Yourself (And What To Do Instead)

I hear some version of this constantly. Why is he late to work every single morning? Why do we fight about homework almost every night, and the fight usually takes longer than the homework itself? Why do I have to ask my kid to do the dishes ten times before it...