The ADHD Blueprint Toy Story 5 Got Screen Time Half Right. Here Is What Every Parent of an ADHD Kid Actually Needs. Picture it. You took the kids to see Toy Story 5. You are sitting in a dark theater watching a story about a little girl named Bonnie who slowly disappears into a glowing tablet while the toys who love her get left in a pile on the floor. And the whole movie is basically begging you to put the screens down and let your kid be a kid again. And then it hits you. You are watching this message on a giant screen. You drove your family to a building so they could stare at a screen for 102 minutes to learn that screens are stealing childhood. Your kid is mesmerized. You are mesmerized. The irony is so thick you could chew it. Pause for the existential whiplash....Read more

ADHD & Hormones For Women ADHD and Hormones: Why Your Symptoms Get Worse Before Your Period If your ADHD gets worse before your period, you are not imagining it. Some weeks you are sharp. Some weeks the same brain cannot start a sentence. There is a reason, and once you can see it, you can finally work with your cycle instead of against it. You know the pattern even if nobody ever named it for you. For about two weeks you are on top of everything. Then, somewhere after ovulation and right before your period, the same brain falls apart. Focus gone. Words missing. Patience worn thin. You glance at the calendar, see where you are in your cycle, and it finally clicks. This is the link between ADHD and hormones, and for women it changes everything about how we understand our own minds. Our ADHD is not constant. It...Read more

You gave a warning. You were calm. You even let them have an extra ten minutes like some kind of patient, saintly, unreasonably reasonable human being. And they still lost their mind. Cool. Great. Totally fine. Here is the thing though: you did nothing wrong. What you are running into has nothing to do with how you asked, how nice you were, or how many warnings you gave. It is a brain thing. Specifically, it is a very specific set of neurological realities that make this exact situation almost inevitable without the right approach. Let me break down what is actually happening, because once you see it, everything changes. And I mean that in a practical way, not a fortune cookie way. By the end of this you will have specific things you can try today and see a real difference. First, Let’s Talk About What Video Games Are Actually...Read more

The science is moving fast. Here are the five things that genuinely stopped me in my tracks this year.Read more