A WORKSHOP For parents of ADHD KiDs
This is the year it's going to be different.
You can feel it.
New backpack, fresh folders, a clean slate for everybody. You mean it this time. You meant it last time too, and you remember how fast it slid, the loud mornings, the folder dumped by Friday, the first email from the teacher.
Spend 50-minutes with me. We'll get a real plan in place for the parts that always get hard, so this fresh start doesn't wear off by October.
Beat the September Scramble
Get your ADHD kid's routines, supports, and accommodations figured out before school starts.
Get instant access to this 50-minute workshop, and you'll know exactly what your family's next steps are.
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Let's be honest...
You want to be excited about this year.
You bought the good folders. You set up the little launch spot by the door. You told yourself that this time you'd stay on top of it, and you meant it.
And a small, tired part of you is already waiting for it to slide. Because last year you meant it too. The first week went fine, and then the mornings got loud, the homework got hard, and the emails started, and by October you were right back to repeating yourself all day and wondering why none of it stuck.
So you've caught yourself wondering. Is it the teacher? Is it the school? Is it something I keep doing wrong?
It's none of those. It's what a hard reset in September does to an ADHD brain when nothing around them got set up for it. And once you can see that clearly, you stop bracing for the year and start getting ahead of it.
It shows up everywhere. All day.
The 7:40 meltdown over a sock. The homework you sat and did together that never made it out of the backpack. The lunchbox growing something in the bottom of the bag. The email you read twice in the pickup line, stomach dropping before you finished the first sentence.
It feels like a dozen separate fires you have to put out from scratch every single day. It isn't. Almost all of it comes back to one of three things.
1
The switch back happens overnight
All summer, the days were loose and open. Now, one Monday, it's early wake-ups, sit still, line up, wait your turn, all of it back at once, on someone else's clock. An ADHD brain doesn't turn on a dime like that. Summer was one hard adjustment. Going back is the opposite one, just as fast and just as jarring. So the first weeks come out sideways, and the kid who finally found a summer groove is suddenly falling apart before breakfast. They didn't go backward...they got handed a whole new set of rules and no time to catch up
2
School asks for the exact things that are hardest for them
Remember the folder. Start the worksheet you don't want to start. Sit still. Turn it in. Keep track of the jacket, the permission slip, the thing due Thursday. All day long, school leans on the parts of your kid that tire out the fastest. That's why the homework gets done and never turned in. That's why you're saying the same sentence for the sixth time and hearing it come out sharper each time. It was never that they didn't care. They've been working harder than anyone can see.
3
You find out something's wrong after it's already big
Nobody emails to say your kid had a good day. So the first real word from school usually lands after the missing work has stacked up or the chart's already gone red, when it's late enough that everyone's frustrated.
It's just how school works, the news comes after the struggle, not before it. And that email can hit like a verdict, the one you've been quietly dreading. The hard truth is the support that catches this stuff early exists, but the system almost never offers it up front. You have to know it's there and ask.
You've carried this by yourself for too many falls now, blaming yourself for a thing that was never yours to fix alone.
Imagine walking in already ready.
Not crossing your fingers and hoping this year just lands better. Not waiting on an email to tell you what you missed.
Picture the morning already having a rhythm your kid can follow. The homework hour with a shape instead of a standoff. The teacher already knowing your child as more than a problem, because you got there first, back in week one, before anything went wrong.
That's what this workshop is for. I take the moments that keep blowing up your house and work through them out loud, and you build your own plan for your own kid as we go. Not a lecture. The actual 7:42 sock crisis. The actual homework fight. The actual email you dread.
1
You finally understand why it keeps happening
Once you see what going back to school actually does to your kid, the meltdowns and the homework battles stop being a fresh mystery every morning. You stop taking it personally. And for the first time, you can see it coming instead of getting blindsided by it at 4pm.
2
You set things up so it happens less
Small changes to the morning, the homework, the routines, built to fit your kid instead of fighting them. So you're not the only thing holding the whole day together with your bare hands, and the house stops running on how many times you can repeat yourself before you lose it.
3
You walk in on the school's side, not waiting for their call
You'll know how to start the conversation early, so instead of flinching at the school's name in your inbox, you already had the talk that mattered. And you'll know what your kid can actually get at school, in plain words, diagnosis or not. When something comes up, and it might, you're at the table as a partner, not summoned to it as a problem.
And you don't leave with a pile of ideas to sort through someday. You leave knowing what to do first, with the routines, the supports, and the accommodations to ask for. Plus the full replay, for the week this fall throws you something new.
Because it will. That never changes. What changes is that this time, you saw it coming, and you weren't standing there empty-handed.
Kristina Manning M.Ed
Calm Minds Parent Coach
Hi, I'm Kristina.
I spent 15 years as a teacher and a school counselor before I started this work, and I'll tell you the part almost nobody on my side of the desk says out loud. I was the one sending those emails.
I sat in the meetings. I watched a kid have a rough spring, walk in that fall with a real, genuine fresh start, and I watched it fade in about three weeks. Not because the kid gave up. Because nothing around them had changed, so the same fall unfolded the same way it had the year before.
And I watched the parents come in for that meeting and quietly take the weight of all of it. One mom sat across from me, close to tears, and told me she just kept waiting for the year they'd finally get it right.
I wanted to reach across the table and tell her what I could see and she couldn't. The families whose years went differently weren't trying harder than she was. They weren't loving their kids more. They just had things in place before the trouble started. The morning had a shape. The help got asked for early. The teacher and the parent were already on the same side in week one, not meeting over a crisis in week five.
That's not luck, and it's not a personality you're either born with or you're not. It's a plan. And a plan is something I can help you build, in 90-minutes, before this fall gets its hands on your family.
What's Included
A workshop for the parent already bracing for the
first day of school.
The 50-Minute Workshop. Fifty minutes of me working through the real back-to-school moments in real time, the mornings, the homework, the forgetting, the teacher emails, so you see exactly how to handle them before you're standing in the middle of one.
Your Back-to-School Plan. You build your family's own plan as we go, so you leave knowing your next step instead of holding a stack of ideas for someday.
The School Conversation, Made Easier. What your kid can actually get at school, and how to be on the teacher's side from day one, in plain language, whether or not there's a diagnosis.
3 BONUSES:
🎁 Back to School Email Template
🎁 504/IEP Email Template
🎁 Calm Down Menu
What's different by the first day.
That knot in your chest loosens
The one that's been there since the school supply aisle. You know what's coming this fall, and you know what's already in place for it. The first day feels like a start again, not a countdown to the same thing falling apart.
The morning stops being a fight
Not perfect. Just possible. There's a rhythm now that fits your actual kid, so you're not saying the same thing for the fifth time before 7:45, and nobody's climbing into the car already crying.
You've had the conversation you used to dread
You reached out before anything went wrong, so the teacher knows your kid as a whole person, not a behavior report. When something does come up, you handle it together, early, before it ever becomes that email.
You go to bed without the guilt
No lying there at 9pm running the reel of everything you should've done differently. You set this up. It fits your kid. And on the hard nights, because there will still be hard nights, you're not starting from nothing anymore.
Good questions to ask first.
How do I access the workshop?
Instantly! As soon as your purchase is complete, you will receive an email with a link to watch the 60-minute workshop. You can start watching right now.
Is this really about back-to-school, or just the usual ADHD advice with a September sticker on it?
All the way about the transition. We're looking at exactly why going back to school knocks an ADHD kid flat, and how to set up mornings, homework, and support that hold up in the real first weeks, not a color-coded system that's abandoned by the second Friday.
My child doesn't have an official diagnosis. Is this still for me?
Yes. If the mornings and the homework and the forgetting are battles at your house, this is for you. The school-support piece will show you what's possible either way. You don't need a piece of paper to know your kid is struggling, or to get ahead of a hard fall.
What do I actually walk away with, besides feeling motivated for a day?
A plan you built yourself. The morning, the homework, the support to put in place, how to start off right with the teacher. Specific to your kid, written down, yours. Not a list of ideas. Your next step.
Is $37 worth it for 50-minutes?
Think back on what last fall actually cost you. The yelling before school, the homework standoffs, the email you read twice in the pickup line and felt for the rest of the day. For less than a run down the school supply aisle, you walk into this year with it handled instead of bracing for it.
There's a pattern underneath all of it.
The lost mornings, the homework battles, the forgotten folders, the emails from school. They're not a dozen different problems. They're one kid, meeting a season nobody set them up for.
This isn't about becoming a calmer person by sheer willpower at 7:45 in the morning. It's about seeing this fall coming and getting out in front of it, so you walk in as the parent who was ready. Not the one waiting for the email.