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Raising ADHD: Real Talk For Parents & Educators

Raising ADHD: Real Talk For Parents & Educators

著者： Dr. Brian Bradford & Apryl Bradford
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Raising a child with ADHD can feel overwhelming—meltdowns, school struggles, medication decisions, and the constant fear you’re doing it wrong. Raising ADHD is the podcast for parents and teachers who want clarity, strategies, and real-life support.


Hosted by Apryl Bradford, M.Ed. (former teacher and ADHD mom) and Dr. Brian Bradford, D.O. (Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist), this show cuts through the myths and misinformation about Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Together, Apryl and Dr. Bradford bring both lived experience and clinical expertise to help you:


  • Understand what ADHD really is (and isn’t)
  • Navigate school challenges and partner with teachers
  • Make sense of medication options without the jargon
  • Support your child’s strengths while tackling everyday struggles
  • Feel less alone and more empowered on this journey


Each week, you’ll hear practical tips, the latest insights from the field, and conversations that validate what you’re living through. Whether you’re dealing with emotional outbursts, executive function challenges, or the stigma that still surrounds ADHD, you’ll find real talk and real help here.


If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Am I doing this right?”—this podcast is your answer.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not medical or psychiatric advice and should not replace professional consultation with a qualified healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other licensed professional with any questions you may have regarding your child’s health or behavior.

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  • Beat Back-to-School Burnout: The ADHD Mom's Prep Plan for a Calmer School Year

    Beat Back-to-School Burnout: The ADHD Mom's Prep Plan for a Calmer School Year
    2026/07/27

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    Back-to-school prep for ADHD families starts with you. Simple decisions to make now, from meals to meds to bedtime, so you start the year less loaded and more regulated.

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    It's late July. The kids are still in swimsuits, but the back-to-school bins are already at Walmart, and the school emails are landing. You know it in your bones: if you're stressed, everyone's stressed. So before we prep the kids or the teachers, this first episode is about you.

    This kicks off a three-part back-to-school series, and Part 1 is all about taking weight off your shoulders before the year starts. I walk through the two battle zones where school stress hits hardest (mornings and evenings), then give you the small, decide-it-once moves that quietly lighten the load: setting your school breakfasts and lunches on rotation, the launch pad and weekly clothes systems, outsourcing groceries and repeat purchases, handling the med check and school form now instead of on day one, and easing bedtime back in 10-minute shifts instead of one brutal Sunday night. The principle underneath all of it: support what your child's brain and your brain need, and let go of what neither one does. Pick one or two of the heaviest rocks and move them now.

    Inside this episode

    • The Raising ADHD™ principle for back-to-school: support what your brain and your child's brain need, and let go of the rest.
    • How to find your worst battle zone, mornings or evenings, so you focus your energy in one place.
    • Decide breakfast once: build a short rotation that cuts decision load and makes grocery shopping easier.
    • The launch pad method and the weekly clothes organizer, plus why doing it at night beats doing it in the morning.
    • How to end the daily lunch negotiation by deciding home-lunch and school-lunch days ahead of time.
    • Outsourcing that protects your nervous system: grocery delivery and subscriptions for the repeat items you always run out of.
    • The two ADHD-specific tasks to knock out this week: the medication check and the school medication form.
    • How to reset bedtime without a fight by shifting 10 to 15 minutes a night, dimming lights, and easing screens and reading back in.
    • The one rule to close: pick one or two changes that take the biggest load off you, and let the rest go.

    Timestamps

    00:00 Late July, the in-between, and why this episode is about you
    02:56 The one principle: support what the brain needs, drop the rest
    05:09 Making mornings easier before school starts
    14:00 Ending the daily lunch negotiation
    18:39 Outsourcing groceries and repeat purchases
    24:24 Med checks and school forms to handle now
    26:48 Resetting bedtime without a fight
    31:27 Pick one change and share it

    Read the full transcript

    https://www.buzzsprout.com/2531405/19557708-beat-back-to-school-burnout-the-adhd-mom-s-prep-plan-for-a-calmer-school-year/transcript

    One thing to do next

    Grab the free Morning Toolkit, the decide-it-once system for calmer school mornings, at raisingadhd.org/morning.

    Coming up next week

    Part 2 of the back-to-school series: getting your ADHD kid ready. We'll dig into the routines, regulation, and expectations that help them start the year steady, without you turning into a drill sergeant.

    Resources and related episodes

    Free Morning Toolkit: raisingadhd.org/morning
    Free Executive Function Check-In quiz: raisingadhd.org/quiz
    Ep38: ADHD Summer Survival, 5 Small Things Saving My Life Right Now
    Ep34: The Best Daily Routine for a Child With ADHD (Summer Edition)
    Ep9: The ADHD Bedtime Battle, Why Your Child Won't Sleep and How to Finally Fix It
    Find me on Instagram: @raisingadhd_org

    Hosts

    I'm Apryl Bradford, a former classroom teacher with a master's in education and mom raising a child with ADHD, alongside my husband Dr. Brian Bradford, a child and adolescent psychiatrist.
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  • Are Weekends Making Your ADHD Child's Behavior Worse? Why Monday Mornings Are So Hard

    Are Weekends Making Your ADHD Child's Behavior Worse? Why Monday Mornings Are So Hard
    2026/07/20
    Send us Fan MailIs a packed weekend making ADHD behavior worse? Why kids start Saturday in regulation debt, and a simple weekend check-in for calmer Monday mornings.____________________________________________Soccer at nine, birthday party at two, block party after that. By Sunday night everyone's fried, and Monday morning feels like pushing a wet noodle out the door. You thought doing more would help. Here's the uncomfortable question I'm asking with zero judgment.Your child doesn't start the weekend fresh. After five days of holding it together at school, they start it in regulation debt, and a calendar packed with fun can feel like more of the same. In this episode I break down why ADHD kids hit Saturday already depleted, how both over-scheduling and under-scheduling backfire depending on your child's actual recharge style, and why hyperactivity gets misread as extroversion so often. Then I walk you through a three-step framework for designing a weekend around your child's nervous system instead of everyone else's expectations, plus the Friday night check-in that takes about two minutes. The reframe: plan your weekends around the nervous system, not around fear, guilt, or what every other family is doing.Inside this episodeWhy your child starts the weekend in regulation debt, and why after-school restraint collapse doesn't reset by Saturday morning.The good-intentions trap: structure, enrichment, and screen-avoidance all pushing you toward a fuller calendar.Why hyperactivity is a neurological symptom and not a personality type, and how that leads us to misread what our kids actually need.Why the bouncing-off-the-walls kid may be the one who needs low-stim time, and the quiet, spacey kid may be the true extrovert.Step one: observe one weekend on purpose and collect data on their recharge style, not your shoulds.Step two: name your child's recharge profile. Chiller or adventurer, with no moral ranking either way.Step three: do one thing less or one thing more. Start small instead of overhauling the calendar.Why your own recharge profile matters just as much, and what to do when yours and your child's don't match.The Raising ADHD™ Weekend Check-In you can run in two minutes on a Friday night.Timestamps00:00 The packed weekend and the Monday morning that follows 02:03 The uncomfortable question, asked with zero judgment 02:28 What's actually happening by Friday 03:49 Restraint collapse and starting the weekend in regulation debt 05:13 The good-intentions trap 06:16 The light bulb moment that started this episode 13:16 The reframe: plan around the nervous system, not fear 13:49 The soccer guilt and the "good parent" trap 16:01 What does your brain need this weekend? 17:14 Two kids, two completely different recharge styles 17:39 Why hyperactive doesn't mean extroverted 20:23 Step one: observe one weekend on purpose 21:39 Step two: name your child's recharge profile 23:43 Step three: do one thing less or one thing more 26:27 You are the other half of their nervous system 27:47 The Raising ADHD™ Weekend Check-In 29:08 No guilt, just curiosity and dataRead the full transcripthttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2531405/19500686-are-weekends-making-your-adhd-child-s-behavior-worse-why-monday-mornings-are-so-hard/transcriptOne thing to do nextTake the free Executive Function Check-In to see where your child is strong and where they need support. It takes about five minutes and gives you a personalized snapshot. Get it at raisingadhd.org/quiz.Resources and related episodesFree Executive Function Check-In quiz: raisingadhd.org/quizEp39: ADHD Parenting Burnout, The 3 Stages, the Signs, and What Actually HelpsEp5: After-School Meltdowns and ADHD, A 3-Step Plan Parents Can Start TonightEp34: The Best Daily Routine for a Child With ADHD (Summer Edition)Ep22: ADHD Morning Routine Chaos, How to Find Your Battle Zone and Fix ItFind me on Instagram: @raisingadhd_orgHostsI'm Apryl Bradford, a former classroom teacher with a master's in education and mom raising a child with ADHD, alongside my husband Dr. Brian Bradford, a child and adolescent psychiatrist.
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    27 分
  • Impulsive Behavior in ADHD: Why Your Child Has No Pause Button and How to Build One

    Impulsive Behavior in ADHD: Why Your Child Has No Pause Button and How to Build One
    2026/07/14

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    Impulsive behavior in ADHD kids isn't defiance, it's a delayed pause button. What's happening in the brain, the three types of impulsivity, and an 8-step way to help.

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    Your child does something so far past logic that you're left staring at the mess asking "why would you do that?" Here's the hard truth: they don't know either. Their brain generated "go" before it could generate "stop."

    I open with a powdered-sugar snowstorm in my kitchen, because impulsive behavior in ADHD kids is one of the most maddening things to parent. In this episode I break down what impulse control actually is (response inhibition), why the ADHD brain's pause button is delayed and underpowered, and the three types of impulsivity you're seeing at home and school. Then I walk you through an 8-step stop-and-think system you can teach in calm moments and prompt in hot ones, plus the environment tweaks that cut impulsive behavior fastest while the skill is still building. The reframe: a child who cannot pause cannot use the skills they already have.

    Inside this episode

    • What impulse control really is, and why Peg Dawson and Dr. Russell Barkley call it the foundation the other executive function skills depend on.
    • What's happening in the ADHD brain: the weaker, later stop signal and the role dopamine plays.
    • The three types of impulsivity: verbal, motor/behavioral, and emotional, and how they show up at different times of day.
    • The core reframe: your child isn't the kid who never thinks, they're the kid whose brain needs help building a pause.
    • Why you teach the pause in calm moments and prompt it in hot ones, never mid-meltdown.
    • The 8-step stop-and-think system, from picking one behavior to praising the pause instead of perfection.
    • Why pairing the pause with a physical body cue helps the brain insert the delay.
    • The environment changes that reduce impulsive behavior fastest while the skill develops.
    • Your one-week plan: one behavior, one pause script, three calm practice reps.

    Timestamps

    00:00 Why impulse control feels impossible
    02:07 The powdered sugar morning story
    03:55 What impulse control really means
    08:10 The ADHD brain and the weak stop signal
    12:21 The three types of impulsivity
    14:55 The reframe: skills need a pause
    16:29 Teach a pause script in calm moments
    19:50 The 8-step stop-and-think system
    27:33 Reduce risk by changing the environment
    29:01 Your weekly plan and closing encouragement

    Read the full transcript

    https://www.buzzsprout.com/2531405/19488732-impulsive-behavior-in-adhd-why-your-child-has-no-pause-button-and-how-to-build-one/transcript

    Resources mentioned

    Free Executive Function Check-In quiz, to see where your child is strong and weak: raisingadhd.org/quiz

    One thing to do next

    Take the free Executive Function Check-In to find out whether impulse control is one of your child's weaker skills, and see how your profile compares to theirs. Get it at raisingadhd.org/quiz.

    Resources and related episodes

    Ep27: Executive Function Skills and ADHD, Why Your Child Can't "Just Do It"
    Ep31: ADHD Meltdowns vs Tantrums
    Ep36: Your ADHD Child Isn't Trying to Drive You Crazy
    Find me on Instagram: @raisingadhd_org

    Hosts

    I'm Apryl Bradford, a former classroom teacher with a master's in education and mom raising a child with ADHD, alongside my husband Dr. Brian Bradford, a child and adolescent psychiatrist.
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    32 分
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