13/10/2025
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ต โ ๐๐ผ-๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ด๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ก๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ผ๐
Itโs ADHD Awareness Month, and I want to share something that so many parents tell me quietly:
โ๐๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ, ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ด ๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต.โ
Tears, shouting, slammed doorsโฆ then guilt, exhaustion, and sometimes silence.
But hereโs the truth: After-school meltdowns arenโt bad behaviour.
Theyโre what happens when your child finally feels safe enough to let the feelings out.
Your child has held it together all day in a world that often feels too loud, too bright, too demanding. And when they see you, their safe person, their nervous system finally lets go.
Thatโs where ๐ฐ๐ผ-๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ด๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป comes in.
Itโs not about fixing or forcing calm. Itโs about ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐บ; helping your childโs storm find its anchor.
This ADHD Awareness Month, Iโve written a new blog all about this: how co-regulation can transform after-school chaos into connection, and how my After-School Meltdown Toolkit can help.
โจ Read it here: https://www.magicmindshypnotherapy.co.uk/post/adhd-and-after-school-meltdowns
Together, we can turn awareness into understanding and understanding into peace. ๐
As someone who walks with neurodivergent families every day, I feel the weight of what it means to live with ADHD, not just in moments of creativity or hyperfocus, but in the tricky, exhausting, everyday moments when logic and calm dissolve, and overwhelm rushes in. One of those moments? After schoo...