Parenting with ADHD 2.0 Skills Group

Helping Your Child Build Independence While Strengthening Your Connection

Parenting a child with ADHD can sometimes leave you wondering why the approaches that seem to work for other families don’t work the same way in yours.

You may find yourself repeating instructions, struggling through mornings, homework, bedtime, transitions, or getting out the door.

You can see your child become overwhelmed by something that seems small, while wondering how to provide the structure they need without every interaction becoming another source of frustration.

And as your child gets older, the questions often become more complicated.

How much responsibility should they have?

When should you step in?

When should you step back?

How can you help them become more independent without setting them up for unnecessary frustration?

The Parenting with ADHD 2.0 Skills Group is a 12-week program designed to help parents build on their understanding of ADHD while developing practical strategies that support planning, organization, communication, relationships, independence, and self-advocacy.

This group focuses on helping parents move from managing everything themselves toward teaching the skills and creating the supports their children need to take greater ownership of everyday responsibilities.

Because parenting ADHD often requires a different approach.

What We’ll Focus On

Applying Your Understanding of ADHD & the ADHD Brain

ADHD affects far more than attention.

Understanding how ADHD influences executive functioning, emotional regulation, behavior, motivation, and everyday responsibilities provides important context for supporting your child.

In Parenting with ADHD 2.0, we’ll build on that understanding and explore how to apply it in real-life situations.

Rather than focusing only on what your child is doing, we’ll look more closely at the skills and supports that may be needed.

Regulation is an important part of the goal.

When we better understand what’s happening beneath the behavior, we can begin developing responses that support learning, connection, and growing independence.

Planning & Organization

Calendars. Homework. Chores. Appointments. Activities. Responsibilities.

Family life involves countless details that someone needs to remember, organize, and manage.

For many parents of children with ADHD, that responsibility falls heavily on the parent.

We’ll explore practical strategies involving calendars, visual supports, family systems, homework routines, chores, and other everyday responsibilities.

The goal is to help your child begin developing organizational skills and systems that make sense for their age, abilities, and individual needs.

Executive Functioning, Communication & Relationships

Sometimes the challenge isn’t what you’re asking your child to do.

It’s how the expectation is communicated, processed, remembered, or acted upon.

ADHD-related executive functioning challenges can affect conversations, listening, following directions, emotional responses, and family relationships.

We’ll explore communication strategies, effective instructions, listening skills, and ways to reduce unnecessary power struggles.

The goal is to create more opportunities for cooperation, understanding, and connection while maintaining appropriate expectations.

Independence & Self-Advocacy

One of the biggest challenges parents face is knowing when to help and when to encourage their child to take greater responsibility.

Independence doesn’t happen all at once.

It develops through opportunities to practice skills, recognize needs, make decisions, and learn how to ask for appropriate support.

We’ll explore age-appropriate responsibility, self-awareness, school accommodations, self-advocacy, and transition planning.

Whether your child is learning to manage a morning routine or preparing for greater independence in college, the goal is to help them develop skills they can increasingly use for themselves.

Parent Self-Care & Resilience

Supporting a child with ADHD requires energy, patience, flexibility, and problem-solving.

And parents need support, too.

We’ll continue exploring the importance of parent self-care, emotional regulation, resilience, and building a support system.

That includes recognizing when you need help, strengthening your connections with others, and developing home and community supports.

You don’t have to be the entire support system for your child.

Building your village is part of building a more sustainable approach to parenting.

Is This What Parenting ADHD Feels Like in Your Home?

Maybe you’ve wondered:

• “What am I doing wrong?”
• “How do I help without doing it for them?”
• “They know what they’re supposed to do. Why aren’t they doing it?”
• “Why does homework have to be this difficult?”
• “Why does asking them to pick up their room turn into such a big reaction?”
• “How many times do I have to tell them?”
• “When will the constant nagging end?”
• “What happens if I stop helping?”
• “Do I have ADHD, too?”

These questions often come up when you’re trying to balance expectations, independence, support, and connection.

And they’re worth exploring.

Sometimes asking a different question can help you recognize a challenge you hadn’t considered before.

Instead of focusing only on why something isn’t happening, you can begin exploring what skills, strategies, or supports might make it more manageable.

Our group isn’t about expecting parents to become perfectly regulated, perfectly organized, endlessly patient versions of themselves.

We want to help you better understand what’s happening and develop tools that are realistic enough to use in your actual life.

Whether you have ADHD yourself, are parenting a child with ADHD, or both, there is room for you here.

Less Managing. More Teaching. More Connection. Growing Independence.

Imagine moving from:

“Did you remember?”

To:

“What’s your plan?”

From:

“Go get your planner.”

To:

“What system works best for you?”

From:

“I already told you three times!”

To:

“What would help you remember this without me?”

And eventually, from:

“Mom, can you handle this?”

To:

“I think I know what I need to do.”

These changes don’t necessarily happen overnight.

And independence doesn’t mean your child will never need support.

The goal is to help your child gradually develop the awareness, strategies, and confidence to take greater responsibility in ways that are appropriate for their age and needs.

Not perfection.

Progress. Skills. Confidence. Connection. Independence.

Practical Strategies You Can Use in Everyday Life

The goal of this group isn’t to create a perfect household.

It’s to help you develop a better understanding of what’s happening and build strategies you can apply when real life happens.

That might mean having a better approach during a rushed morning.

Finding a different way to manage homework.

Helping your child develop a system for remembering responsibilities.

Responding differently when emotions escalate.

Or knowing how to adjust when a routine that used to work suddenly stops working.

Because successful parenting strategies shouldn’t only work on the easy days.

They need to be practical enough to use in your actual family.