Going Granola Without Going Nuts · Neurodiversity · 6 min read It was a beautiful sunny day. Mimi was on her way. We were heading to a baseball game and from where I was standing, everything looked great. And then, in what felt like about sixty seconds, my son was in the middle of a full meltdown. The culprit? A missing baseball belt. Now, as an adult, I want to tell you that I handled this with grace and wisdom immediately. I did not. My first instinct was somewhere between

Going Granola Without Going Nuts · Neurodiversity · Family Life · 6 min read If you have more than one kid and at least one of them has ADHD, you already know the scene I am about to describe. Everyone is fine. The house is calm. Maybe too calm. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, someone pokes someone else. Says something provocative. Starts something. The temperature rises. Someone retaliates. And within about ninety seconds you have gone from a quiet afternoon to a full p

If you are trying to “be the calm” while your ADHD teen is passionately explaining why putting their shoes on is an assault on their independence… welcome. You are among friends. This is your official reminder that you can be a grounded, crunchy-ish, nervous-system-aware parent without becoming a barefoot monk living on deep breaths and chia seeds. This is Going Granola Without Going Nuts , after all. And nowhere is that balance tested more than when: Your teen is overstimul