Couverture de Neurodivergent Conversations | Autism, ADHD, AuDHD, PDA, Emotional Regulation, SEND parent, Meltdowns, Special Needs Parent

Neurodivergent Conversations | Autism, ADHD, AuDHD, PDA, Emotional Regulation, SEND parent, Meltdowns, Special Needs Parent

Neurodivergent Conversations | Autism, ADHD, AuDHD, PDA, Emotional Regulation, SEND parent, Meltdowns, Special Needs Parent

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What’s it really like parenting a child with ADHD and autism? How can parents, teachers, and communities better support neurodivergent children? How do autistic and ADHD individuals experience the world? Each week, we explore these questions with practical strategies, emotional insight, and real stories. I’m Greer — a mum of two boys (and two dogs!) raising a child with special educational needs (SEN) alongside my husband. Our daily life looks different from the norm, but it’s full of love, advocacy, and growth. I started this podcast to create a space for parents of neurodivergent kids, educators, and allies to learn, connect, and build understanding together. You’ll hear parenting tips, advocacy guidance, sensory strategies, and personal reflections that shine a light on both the joys and challenges of neurodivergent parenting. Through heartfelt solo episodes and guest interviews, we’ll talk about EHCP or IEP processes, school support, emotional regulation, and the big feelings that come with raising ND kids. Whether you’re here as a parent of an autistic or ADHD child, a late-diagnosed adult, a teacher seeking insight, or someone wanting to understand the neurodivergent world, this podcast is your space to grow, connect, and know you’re not alone. Welcome to The Unfinished Idea — a podcast all about parenting, autism, ADHD, and life in a neurodivergent family. Here, we open up honest conversations about neurodiversity, raising neurodivergent children, and navigating the everyday realities of SEN parenting.That Sounds Fun Network 2024 Parentalité Relations Sciences sociales
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  • The Three-Step Reset: What to Do in the Middle of a Meltdown

    The Three-Step Reset: What to Do in the Middle of a Meltdown
    Oct 22 2026
    ** GET THE EXHAUSTED TO EMPOWERED COURSE HERE. USE COUPON RESET TO GET $20 OFF** It was the wrong spoon. That was it. That was the whole thing. A normal morning. Music on, lunches being made, everyone getting ready. And then, out of nowhere, a child face down on the floor screaming, because he had the wrong spoon. In this solo episode I'm sharing something I have been speaking on around the UK: the three-step reset. But first I take you into my kitchen, because I want you to know that we got to school with him still crying and me in tears, and that the thought going round my head was, what is wrong with me? Why can't we do this like every other family walking to school perfectly fine? If you have had that morning, or that bedtime, or that supermarket, or that car park, this one is for you. Here is what I want you to hear. The meltdown is not the problem. You are not the problem. Your child is not the problem. What is happening in your body and in their body, in that moment, is the thing nobody actually taught us about. We have been told to be more consistent. Hold firmer boundaries. Stay calm no matter what. The unspoken lie underneath all of it is that you should be able to hold it together while your child falls apart, and that if you could just regulate hard enough you could override your own nervous system by sheer willpower. That is not how bodies work. You cannot think your way to calm. You have to body your way there first. So I walk you through the three steps. Pause, which is your body. Name, which is your mind. Respond, which is your action. In that order, every time. It isn't a hack. It's a map. And you don't need 12 strategies, you just need one that works when everything is falling apart. GET THE LINKS The Unfinished Idea Website Join the Unfinished Community Exhasuted to Empowered Follow me on socials: INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 min
  • The Guilt Equation: Why Mum Guilt Is Really an Expectations Problem

    The Guilt Equation: Why Mum Guilt Is Really an Expectations Problem
    Oct 15 2026
    Her sister was diagnosed with ADHD in middle school. So was her dad. And JoAnn spent years insisting it definitely wasn't her. Her sister presented the way we all expect ADHD to look. Couldn't sit still, all over the place, pushing back against authority. JoAnn didn't look like that at all, so she assumed she was in the clear, and quietly carried a lot of shame instead. The klutziness. Running into walls. Going into class determined that today would be the day she paid attention, and catching herself 10 minutes later having heard none of it. It took her husband, who is autistic and was diagnosed only about 18 months ago, pointing out the things that made her different from the norm before it all clicked into place. I loved how she describes their marriage. They are jazz. He's the bass and the drum keeping everything on time. She's the saxophone doing riffs all around it to keep it interesting. Then we get into what she actually does, which is helping mamas put down the guilt. And she says something I hadn't heard before: guilt isn't the villain. Used correctly, it is a pro-social emotion. It is the thing that nudges you to reply to the message you ignored, to repair the relationship, to reach back out. Guilt only turns dangerous when it stops describing what you did and starts describing who you are. She walks through the guilt equation, which is expectations minus reality, and the gap versus gain shift, which is one of those tiny changes that quietly rearranges your whole day. And then there is a coffee shop story involving the wrong woman, a free coffee and a genuinely spectacular misunderstanding, which she tells to make a point about what to do with the moments you would normally replay for weeks. GUEST LINKS: Follow JoAnn Grab some of JoAnn's resources GET THE LINKS The Unfinished Idea Website Join the Unfinished Community Exhasuted to Empowered Follow me on socials: INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    32 min
  • Why Standard Sleep Advice Doesn't Work for Neurodivergent Kids

    Why Standard Sleep Advice Doesn't Work for Neurodivergent Kids
    Oct 8 2026
    She teaches families how to sleep for a living. And then her own bedtimes fell apart. Michelle is a paediatric sleep specialist, so she knew every rule in the book. Bath, teeth, pyjamas, story, bed. It had worked. And then, seemingly overnight, it stopped. Bedtime battles climbing, teeth brushing refused, baths refused. She sat in it feeling baffled, convinced she must be doing something wrong, and quietly not telling anyone because how do you admit you are struggling with bedtime when bedtime is your job? What shifted it wasn't a new technique. It was letting go of the shoulds and starting to ask a different question: what is my child's nervous system carrying right now, and how many demands am I stacking on top of it in the last 30 minutes of the day? So she spread it out. Teeth after dinner. The nightly bath quietly retired, because honestly, how dirty are they? Instead of a routine her children had to get through, an evening they could float through. We also get properly into the 4am wake-ups, because so many of us are living there. Michelle explains what is actually going on in the body at that hour, and it turns out to be several things at once rather than one thing you are failing to fix. And her one small thing to try tonight is not what you would expect from a sleep specialist. It isn't dimmer lights or a calmer voice. It's jumping, tug of war with a dressing gown cord and pushing into the bathroom scales, because pressure through the body boosts melatonin naturally and laughing together does more for a nervous system than a quiet room ever will. If bedtime in your house has stopped feeling like relief and started feeling like recovery, this one is for you. GUEST LINKS: Check out Michelle's website Grab the 5 ways to help your autistic and ADHD child switch off their busy brain at bedtime guide GET THE LINKS The Unfinished Idea Website Join the Unfinished Community Exhasuted to Empowered Follow me on socials: INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 min
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