How to Stay Connected With Your Partner When You Have Young Kids (Without Adding More to Your Plate)
67 percent of couples drift apart in the first 3 years after baby. The 5-minute habits, products, and date ideas that actually work.
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HANDLE Therapy and Retained Primitive Reflexes: What We Discovered About Our Son’s ADHD
The OT said something I had never heard before. She was watching Tate move around the room — his constant shifting, the way he could not sit still, the big reactions to the smallest surprises...
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How I Set Up a Destruction Zone for Kids with ADHD and PDA (And Why It Actually Works)
My son has ADHD and PDA, and for months I watched him destroy things around our house — punching walls, throwing toys, ripping things apart — and I felt completely stuck. Timeouts made it worse....
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Tape Laser Maze for Kids: Easy Indoor Activity That Burns Energy
This tape laser maze for kids started as a casual Pinterest video. It now has 19,900 saves. Nineteen. Thousand. People. Apparently I’m not the only one who needs a five-minute indoor activity that actually works....
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Why My PDA Kid Won’t Eat (And What Finally Helped)
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from standing in your kitchen at 6pm, looking at the plate you spent twenty minutes making, and watching your child physically recoil from it. Not because...
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We Pulled Our Son From School Mid-Year. Here’s What Homeschooling a PDA Kid Actually Looks Like.
TL;DR We pulled our PDA/ADHD son from school mid-year after the district exited him from his IEP. If you’re in that moment or approaching it — this post is about what comes next: deschooling, why...
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The Grief Nobody Talks About When You Have a Hard Kid
Nobody warned me about this part. They tell you about the diagnosis process. The medication trials. The IEP meetings. The meltdowns. They give you frameworks and strategies and podcasts and books. Nobody tells you about...
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How to Advocate for Your PDA Child at an IEP Meeting (When the School Has Never Heard of PDA)
TL;DR Most US schools have never heard of PDA. That doesn’t mean you can’t get your child the accommodations they need — it means you have to know how to frame the conversation. This post...
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What to Say to a PDA Kid (Scripts for Every Hard Moment, Organized by Situation)
TL;DR What you say to a PDA kid matters as much as what you ask them to do. This post is just scripts — organized by situation. Morning, homework, bedtime, transitions, mid-meltdown, and after. Save...
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I’ve Tried Every ADHD Med, Therapy, and School Plan. Here’s What I’m Trying Next.
Heads up: This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. TL;DR If your ADHD child is still struggling after meds, therapy, IEPs, and every intervention you...
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