Understanding the Bedtime Window It’s 7:45 PM. The evening routine is done. Teeth brushed, lights dimmed, and the elaborate negotiation over how many covers is the correct number of covers has concluded. I’ve said goodnight, and I’ve meant it. Now, I’m mentally calculating how many quiet hours I have left before tomorrow begins. And then it starts. “Mom? Can I ask you something?” It’s never just one thing. It’s never quick. And it’s never — not once in my entire parenting car

I am an early person. I do not mean this casually. I mean it as a foundational life principle, the way some people feel strongly about proper hydration or thank-you notes. Being early — truly early, not just on-time early but a few minutes in hand, bags down, breath caught, lay-of-the-land established — is one of the primary ways I give myself peace in a world that does not naturally offer very much of it. Those extra minutes before a phone call, before a meeting, before arri

Let me paint you a picture of a Tuesday afternoon in our house. It could start anywhere — did someone leave the milk on the counter again, who turned off the turntable mid-song, is the music too loud, was the volume already too loud before that — and within approximately ninety seconds, we have a fully escalated, absolutely heated, completely absurd situation on our hands. We are not arguing about anything that matters. We are arguing about milk. We are arguing about it with

I’m going to be honest. I thought I had a pretty decent handle on ADHD. Not expert level, but enough to feel like, okay, I get what we’re dealing with here. I had the general picture in my head of what ADHD “looked like.” And then I read something that made me stop and go… wait, what? There are not just one or two ways ADHD shows up. There are seven types. Seven! And suddenly I realized I might not have understood this as well as I thought I did. First, What Happened to ADD?

If you're in the earlier stages of figuring out what you're dealing with, the 7 types of ADHD post is a helpful next read: https://www.goinggranola.net/post/wait-there-are-7-types-of-adhd. And if you haven't yet looked into whether a psychoeducational evaluation makes sense for your child, that post is here: https://www.goinggranola.net/post/should-we-get-a-psych-ed-evaluation-asking-for-a-friend. --- IF THIS RESONATED WITH YOU If you're early in this journey — something f

Once you have results, the next question is what to do with them — that's what Workbook 2 is designed for. And if school accommodations are part of your next step, the 504 vs IEP post is a good foundation: https://www.goinggranola.net/post/504-vs-iep-what-s-the-difference-and-how-do-you-know-which-one-your-child-needs. --- IF THIS RESONATED WITH YOU If you're at the point of considering a psychoeducational evaluation, you're probably in that exhausting in-between space — s

If you're working on the home environment specifically, the calmer home post goes hand in hand with this one: https://www.goinggranola.net/post/creating-a-calmer-home-to-help-decrease-adhd-symptoms. And for the sensory piece of making home work — which is bigger than most people realize — start here: https://www.goinggranola.net/post/sensory-issues-and-adhd-why-the-sock-seam-is-actually-a-really-big-deal. --- IF THIS RESONATED WITH YOU This workbook is the practical compan