The Complete Guide to ADHD Anger in Children for Parents
Why children with ADHD go from calm to furious in seconds, what to do in the first sixty seconds, and how to make the outbursts smaller over time.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 30 June 2026
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 9 June 2026
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 20 May 2026
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 5 May 2026
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 15 April 2026
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 31 March 2026
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 17 March 2026
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 3 March 2026
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 10 February 2026
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 20 January 2026
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 17 DECEMBER 2025
This week’s Live Q&A focused on understanding the why behind big behaviours in kids with ADHD – including meltdowns, aggression, anxiety, sensory seeking, and social struggles.
We covered practical, connection-first strategies for RSD, peer rejection, homework resistance, safety during intense meltdowns, and helping children feel understood without excusing behaviour. We also touched on real-life challenges like fear after a break-in, attention-seeking during busy family events, sensory needs, and how to explain an ADHD diagnosis in a way that builds confidence rather than shame.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 25 NOVEMBER 2025
This week’s Live Q&A focused on self-regulation, sibling conflict, and emotional intensity in kids with ADHD.
We looked at why children come home depleted and reactive after masking all day, and how sensory breaks, after-school decompression, and separate homework spaces can reduce clashes. Parents also learned simple connection-first scripts for RSD moments and age-appropriate ways to help siblings understand ADHD without shame.
Finally, we touched on vibration plates as a potential sensory tool for supporting body awareness and regulation when used slowly and intentionally.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 13 NOVEMBER 2025
This week’s Live Q&A focused on sensory needs, self-regulation, and practical ways to support kids with ADHD during challenging moments. We covered easy morning proprioceptive activities for high-movement kids, how medication may (or may not) help with silliness and impulse-based behaviour at school, and what ADHD burnout can look like in preteens – especially toward the end of the school year. Parents also learned OT-friendly strategies for oral and verbal stimming, plus simple co-regulation tools for meltdowns when talking only makes things worse. I spoke about all of this in the Q&A- watch the replay for the full breakdown.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 30 OCTOBER 2025
This week’s Live Q&A focused on meltdowns, public outbursts, and sleep challenges in young children with ADHD.
We explored what’s really happening in a child’s brain during aggression or emotional overwhelm, and how parents can stay calm, prioritize safety, and co-regulate instead of reasoning in the heat of the moment. Parents learned practical tools for public meltdowns – creating exit plans, setting gentle boundaries, and helping children rebuild after dysregulation.
We also discussed why ADHD often affects sleep, how to support better rest through sensory strategies like weighted blankets and magnesium, and ways to handle bedtime resistance with structure, connection, and calm consistency.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 29 OCTOBER 2025
This week’s Live Q&A focused on emotional regulation, building habits, sibling conflict, social struggles, flexibility, and impulsivity.
We explored how to support a child who flips from calm to explosive – using body-based regulation, sensory breaks, and post-meltdown reflection to identify triggers. Parents learned ways to build motivation and ownership around routines by involving kids in creating their own checklists and starting with one small success.
We also covered how to break the cycle of sibling antagonizing by teaching regulation first, then coaching repair and reconnection, and how to respond with empathy (not shame) when kids lie to fit in.
Finally, we discussed flexibility as an executive function skill and impulsivity as a developmental lag- not defiance – highlighting playful ways to coach pause, practice flexibility, and model calm communication.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 14 OCTOBER 2025
This week’s Live Q&A covered how to talk to your child about their ADHD, managing morning resistance, sibling sleep battles, and navigating school support.
We explored age-appropriate, positive ways to explain ADHD—focusing on strengths, self-understanding, and ongoing conversation rather than labels. Parents learned regulation and connection strategies to ease homeschool transitions, plus bedtime tips like heavy work, staggered routines, and magnesium to support calm.
We also discussed picky eating and low appetite on medication, practical protein-based fixes, and gentle ways to support demand-avoidant kids through choice and play. Finally, we unpacked how to advocate when a 504 evaluation is denied—what to document, how to involve your OT, and keeping communication with schools collaborative.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 4 SEPTEMBER 2025
This week’s Live Q&A covered school transitions, regulation, organization, anxiety, and advocacy.
We discussed how to prepare kids for tricky routines like the school bus through role-play and visual cues, and explored calming tools beyond “take a breath,” such as movement, sensory breaks, and creative outlets.
Parents learned simple systems to build organization skills in tweens, how to support anxiety and overstimulation, and ways to collaborate with teachers—plus adapting visual schedules for kids with demand avoidance through choice and shared control.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 19 AUGUST 2025
This week’s Live Q&A focused on inattentive ADHD in school, low self-esteem and negative self-talk, and sensory challenges around mealtimes.
We shared classroom and coaching strategies for inattentive profiles—movement before focus work, chunked one-step instructions, visual supports, fidgets/doodling, and educating coaches that reduced eye contact can aid processing—plus a balanced take on when medication helps and what to expect.
We explored scaffolding a 7-year-old’s self-talk with validation, growth-mindset reframes (“I’m still learning”), process-based praise, daily wins, affirmations, and when to loop in play therapy or CBT.
Finally, we addressed mealtime anxiety and clothing sensitivities with sensory-smart tweaks: heavy-work “body prep,” choice of seating (stand, stool, cushion), movement bands/chair push-ups, gradual exposure (picnic → counter → table), and considering an OT trained in sensory integration for deeper support.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 5 AUGUST 2025
This week’s Live Q&A covered sibling conflict, explaining ADHD to others, medication expectations, and bedtime challenges.
We shared strategies to deescalate fights in the car, support both children in the moment, and guide them toward repair once calm. We also explored how to explain ADHD in age-appropriate ways to friends and parents, with a focus on empowering kids to self-advocate.
Families beginning the medication journey heard what to expect (and what not to), while parents of younger children learned how sensory needs and impulse control can drive “random” rough play.
Finally, we discussed whether to disclose ADHD in short programs like day camps, and addressed concerns around nighttime wetting—highlighting interoception, reassurance, and when to seek medical support.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 11 JULY 2025
This week’s Live Q&A covered sensory-seeking play, sibling struggles, sleep issues, and supplement support.
We explored how heavy work can help kids who get rough during play, and how to co-regulate in tricky spots like the car or school gate—while supporting neurotypical siblings too.
We also looked at natural ways to boost motivation and calm, including movement, protein, magnesium, and iron—especially for tweens and teens.
And for families facing bedtime battles, we shared practical sleep hygiene tips and magnesium-based options to help kids wind down.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 24 JUNE 2025
This week’s Live Q&A covered some big ADHD parenting struggles—like tough transitions, rejection sensitivity, and sleep challenges.
We shared OT-backed strategies to help kids move from activities like reading to bath time, using visual checklists, multisensory cues, and natural consequences.
We also explored how to support tweens and teens through rejection sensitivity—offering language, perspective-taking tools, and regulation support.
Plus, we reviewed highly rated magnesium-based sleep gummies (without melatonin) to help with calmer bedtimes.
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 12 JUNE 2025
In our second June Live Q&A, we answered even more real-life ADHD parenting questions—from structuring summer screen time to managing travel routines with neurodivergent kids. We explored what to do when a child fixates on fairness and injustice, how to support both siblings in that dynamic, and shared practical, screen-free ideas for handling late-afternoon meltdowns—especially for homeschooling families with younger siblings.
We’re now hosting Q&As every two weeks, alternating morning and evening times to better suit our global community. Catch the replay for support, ideas, and a big dose of “you’re not alone.”
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 10 JUNE 2025
In our June Live Q&A, we tackled some of the most common but tricky ADHD parenting challenges. We looked at how to encourage “listening bodies” without forcing eye contact, how to tell the difference between defiance and poor processing, and why motivation can feel so hard for ADHD kids.
We also explored real tools for managing impulsivity, handling the endless “why?” loop, and using rewards without relying on them long-term. The big takeaway? Many of these behaviors are linked to lagging executive function—not bad parenting or bad kids.
Replay is available now—and going forward, we’ll host Q&As twice a month to better support you across time zones. See you soon!
MEMBERS ONLY LIVE Q AND A 13 MAY 2025
In our May Live Q&A, we tackled some of the most personal and pressing ADHD parenting challenges. We explored how to support sibling relationships when ADHD-related behaviors cause tension, and how to respond when well-meaning relatives misunderstand your child’s needs. We looked at what to do when traditional discipline strategies don’t work, especially for parents parenting solo, and why emotional outbursts are often tied to lagging executive function. We also addressed why some kids with ADHD seem perpetually discontent, and shared practical tips for helping socially struggling children feel included—especially at their own birthday parties.
Catch the replay for real-life strategies, relatable insights, and the reassurance you’re not alone. See you in June!