No magic, no miracle systems — just things that have genuinely helped in our house, shared in the hope they might help in yours. Pick the perspective that fits where you are.
I want to be upfront: I am not a productivity guru. I've bought the planners, tried the apps, downloaded the habit trackers, and abandoned most of them within a fortnight. What's below isn't a perfect system. It's a collection of things that have stuck — or at least stuck long enough to make a real difference — organised by whichever situation you're actually in right now.
Day-to-day strategies for managing your own ADHD — organisation, focus, energy, and working with your brain instead of against it.
Read the tipsWhat's actually helped at home and at school, raising a child with ADHD — the tips-based companion to my ADHD Parenting Files.
Read the tipsStrategies for surviving — and sometimes thriving — in a workplace that wasn't built with ADHD brains in mind.
Read the tipsWhat it might look and feel like from the other side — written for the adults trying to understand, not the child themselves.
Read the tipsFor what it's worth — things that haven't helped us include: strict punishment-based behaviour charts (they work for about a week, then collapse when the novelty wears off), expecting my son to just "try harder", and trying to maintain systems that are too complex to keep up with.
ADHD management works best when it works with the brain, not against it. Simple, visible, forgiving systems beat elaborate ones every time. And compassion — for your child, and for yourself — is genuinely the most practical thing in the toolkit.