A LIVE WORKSHOP For parents of ADHD KiDs
Summer is supposed to be the easy season but things feel harder than ever.
When the school year ended, the structure your ADHD child relies on disappeared overnight. Now, you're left managing endless snack requests, screen-time battles, and sudden meltdowns.
Spend an hour with me and get some practical, real-time tools into your hands so you can confidently handle these tough moments and bring some peace back to your kitchen.
Surviving Summer: The ADHD Meltdown Playbook
Stop fighting the boredom, the messy transitions, and the sibling blowups one miserable battle at a time.
Join me for a practical, 60-minute strategy session to get the concrete, neuro-somatic tools you need to shift the energy in your house.
Wednesday July 1· 12:00pm ET · Live on Zoom
Today's Price Only $37
Let's be honest...
You pictured a different summer than this.
More fun with your kid. A few slow mornings. Maybe days by the pool. A hard-earned break from the school-year stress.
Instead, the lack of routine has dialed the tension up to a ten. Every morning feels like stepping into a minefield. A simple comment about breakfast or screens instantly triggers an absolute blowout...leaving both of you screaming in the kitchen, wondering how the day collapsed before 10:00 AM.
So you've started to wonder. Is it the screens? The schedule? Something you're doing?
It's none of those things. It's just what summer days do to an ADHD brain. And once you can finally see what's actually happening and why, you can work with it instead of fighting it.
It shows up everywhere. All day.
School's been out a few weeks. The routine's gone, the backpack's dumped by the door, and the days are suddenly long in a way they weren't in May. And your kid is coming apart over all the things...The wrong cup. A changed plan. A sibling who looked at them funny.
It feels random and endless. It isn't. Almost every summer meltdown comes from one of three places.
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The backpack gets too heavy
Your kid is carrying invisible bricks all day, hunger they don't feel until they're starving, fatigue, too much noise, a disappointment from this morning. You don't see the load. You just see the blowup over a dropped popsicle, and it looks way bigger than the moment that set it off.
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The structure that held them up is gone
School handed your kid a frame for the whole day, when to start, when to stop, what's next. Summer took it away overnight. So the open morning, the screen handoff, the "just go play" all turn into a fight, because their brain is being asked to build the scaffolding school used to provide.
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It looks like won't. It's actually can't.
"They just don't care." "Why aren't they trying harder?" It feels like defiance, so you push, and it gets worse. But a flooded brain isn't choosing this. It can't get there yet, and the harder you push the can't, the bigger the spiral.
You don't have three problems. You have a dysregulated kid, a worn-out you, and a summer nobody handed you a plan for.
Imagine knowing what to say.
Not freezing up in the hallway. Not snapping in frustration and then carrying parenting guilt all the way through dinner.
Imagine having actual, specific words spoken calmly that can actually reach your kid when they are mid-spiral and help everybody take a collective, deep breath.
That's exactly what this workshop is. Kristina takes the summer moments blowing up your house right now and works through them out loud. You'll see what's actually happening under the surface, what to think, and the exact words to say next. Not an academic lecture about the ADHD brain. The actual 10:15am crisis. The actual 4pm collapse.
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The one thing underneath all of it
You'll learn to see the invisible "backpack of bricks" your child is carrying...like how an ADHD brain handles hunger (they literally don't feel it until they are starving and completely melting down). You'll stop playing whack-a-mole with bad behavior and learn how to catch it early.
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The actual words, ready to grab
Real, field-tested scripts for the hardest moments. You'll learn why asking an angry, melting-down kid "How are you feeling?" is a total trap and how to name the feeling for them to instantly take the sting out of the moment.
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A way to see it coming
Most ADHD meltdowns actually give you a few hidden seconds of warning. You'll learn exactly what those quiet seconds look like so you can step in and be the calm they can borrow before the screaming starts.
The words go on your phone, on the fridge, or in your pocket for 4:00 PM when you need them most. Plus, you get the full replay, so you can come back to it any time this summer completely falls apart again.
Because, let's be honest... it will.
Kristina Manning M.Ed
Calm Minds Parent Coac
Hi, I'm Kristina.
I spent 15 years as a teacher and school counselor before I started this coaching work, and I watched the exact same heartbreaking thing happen every single June. Kids who successfully held it together all school year would completely come apart within the first two weeks of June. Parents who survived an entire year of intense homework battles would reach July significantly more worn down and broken than they'd been in May.
What almost none of those families had was a reason why.
So, parents did what we always do: they filled in the blank with self-blame. A mom said it to me once, half-joking and half crying: "I think I broke my kid by trying to give him a normal summer."
It isn't that. I promise you. Summer asks something entirely different of your child's regulatory system, and when the external structure of school vanishes, their brain spikes into total overwhelm.
Once you can see the pattern, the boredom, the screen battles, and the sibling blowups stop being a mystery you have to solve fresh every single day. They start being a predictable pattern you can get ahead of.
That's exactly what this hour is for.
What's Included
A live, one-hour workshop for parents of ADHD kids who are wondering how they'll make it to August.
Wednesday July 1 · 12:00pm ET · $37
The Live 60-Minute Workshop. Watch Kristina walk through real summer scenarios in real time so you can see the tools in action.
The Full Replay Access. Rewatch any time this summer when things get bumpy, or catch it on your own time if you can't make it live.
The Summer Script Guide. Real, concrete scripts for the moments that keep repeating: the boredom loop, the screen time handoff, the sibling blowup.
How to Read the Moment. A simple, fast way to read your child's nervous system before you react, so you stop playing whack-a-mole with the behavior.
What's different by tomorrow afternoon.
You stop bracing for 4pm
That knot you get around mid-afternoon, when you can feel the day about to turn? You'll know what's coming and what to do with it, instead of just waiting for the floor to drop.
The words come before the panic does
He's spiraling, "I'm stupid, everyone hates me," and instead of standing there with your mouth open, you've got the actual sentence. Calm. True. Already in your pocket.
You stop fighting it piece by piece
The boredom, the screens, the sibling thing, the bedtime, you'll see they're all the same missing piece, so you quit playing whack-a-mole and get ahead of it at the root.
You go to bed not replaying it
No lying there at 9pm rerunning everything you wish you'd done differently. You handled it. You'll handle the next one. The house isn't perfect, it's just lighter.
Good questions to ask first.
Do I need to attend live?
No, not at all. If you can make it live, it’s awesome because you can practice the scripts in the chat and get real-time feedback. But if you are drowning in laundry or just need to watch this in bed with headphones on later, I completely get it. You will get the full replay and the script guide sent straight to your inbox the second we finish.
Is this actually about summer, or just the usual ADHD advice with a summer label slapped on it?
This is 100% about the specific chaos of summer. We are looking exactly at why losing the built-in routine of the school year makes an ADHD brain short-circuit, and how to build 'anchor points' into long, hot days without trapping everyone in a rigid, hour-by-hour schedule that inevitably falls apart by 9:30 AM.
My child doesn't have an official diagnosis. Is this still for me?
Absolutely. If your child struggles with massive emotions, has a meltdown whenever it’s time to switch gears, or completely spirals when plans change, these strategies will help. You don't need an official piece of paper from a doctor to know your child is having a hard time navigating the summer.
What do I actually walk away with, besides feeling inspired for a day?
You walk away with a literal plan. You'll leave with actual, physical words to say when your kid is glued to a screen, a simple trick to handle their messy summer sleep schedule, and a quick way to read their behavior so you can step in before the screaming starts. No abstract theories—just things you can actually use this afternoon.
Is $37 worth it for one hour?
Honestly? Think about what a single afternoon of door-slamming, screaming, and heavy parenting guilt costs your sanity. For less than the price of a takeout dinner, you are getting a practical, down-to-earth plan to lower the temperature in your living room for the next two months.
There's a invisible pattern underneath all of it.
The exhausting boredom, the screen standoffs, the relentless sibling fighting... they are all connected.
It's not about being a calmer person by sheer willpower at 4pm. It's about seeing the storm coming, and having the words ready before it hits. Get ahead of it, protect your own peace, and be the calm adult your kid can lean on right now.