Summer doesn’t fall apart because you’re failing at it.
It falls apart because the scaffolding left.
For ten months of the year, the school day holds the shape of things. Wake-up has a reason. Lunch happens at a time. Someone, somewhere, is expecting your kiddo at 8:45. You may not love that structure, but it is doing a lot of quiet work.
Then the last bell rings, and all of that scaffolding walks out the door. Nothing arrives to replace it. The plan you made in June, the colour-coded one, the one you felt good about, has quietly become a laminated chart nobody looks at by the second week of July.
That is not a discipline problem. That is what summer does.
And for parents with ADHD, or parents raising kids with ADHD, the chaos itself usually isn’t the hardest part. The hardest part is the story that runs underneath it. The one that says everyone else has figured this out and you are the only one drowning. The guilt does more damage than the messy Tuesday ever did.
So here's what this is:
The Off-Season: An ADHD parent group for the summer months is a weekly group for parents who are done white-knuckling the summer alone. Once a week, for seven weeks, a small group of parents comes together to do three things: say the real thing out loud, trade strategies that actually work in real homes, and build a runway toward the school year so September doesn’t arrive like a wall.
This is not a summer routine you will abandon by week two. Nobody hands you a system from the front of the room, because there isn't a one-size-fits-all here. The strategies come from lived experience, the parents in the room, all of us living the same week you are. My job is to share my lived experience, help you and your family get the most out of your summer, keep the conversation moving, kitten herd the good ideas into something usable, and to pull a thread one layer deeper when someone shares something half-formed that is clearly worth more.
Simple. Practical. No judgement.
Who is this for?
This group is built for two kinds of parents, and the mix is the point, not a compromise.
• Parents who have ADHD themselves, raising kids with or without it. You bring the lived-from-the-inside understanding of how these brains actually work.
• Parents who are neurotypical, raising a child with ADHD. You often bring the externalized systems and scaffolding thinking that the first group can find slippery to hold.
Put plainly: you are genuinely helpful to each other. Some of the best strategies in the room will travel from one type of parent to the other. Nobody is in the wrong seat here.
What the 7 weeks actually do...
The group has an arc. It is not the same conversation seven times.
• Early weeks: permission and survival. Summer is already loosening when we start. These weeks are for landing, saying the honest thing, and discovering the room is full of people having your exact week. The guilt comes down first. Forward planning sticks better once it does.
• Middle weeks: the strategy engine. You bring what is actually happening at home. The group pressure-tests it. Someone borrows an idea and reports back the next week on what happened. This is where the real value lives.
• Final weeks: the September runway. The conversation turns, gently, toward the school year. What do you want in place before the first bell, and how do you get there without burning out the last good weeks of summer? We land the plane together.
You'll walk away with:
Not a perfect summer. A livable one, with some real moments in it. And when the first day of school arrives, you arrive steadier than you would have on your own. You walk in with a handful of strategies you actually tested, borrowed from people in the same reality. You walk in knowing the drift of summer never turned into shame, because there was a standing day every week to catch it. And you walk in alongside other parents, instead of starting from scratch and alone.
The details:
• Seven weekly sessions, Wednesdays at 7pm – 8pm MST, starting July 15 and finishing the week before school returns
• Small group, capped at 12 parents, so everyone actually gets airtime. The cap is there to protect the quality of the room.
• Live sessions, held on Microsoft Teams. Every session is recorded, so a week you can’t make doesn’t cost you your place in the group. The recording is a backup, not a track to follow. The value is in the live room.
• In week one we set a simple group agreement on what is recorded and how those recordings are handled, because what gets shared here about your kids and your own struggles deserves care.
Total value included: $1,897.
Because this is the inaugural cohort, I've reduced the price significantly. Your investment: $497.00
Summer is going to do what summer does. It will get loose, plans will collapse, the good intentions will drift. The only real question is whether you face that alone, or in a room with a dozen people who already understand the week you’re having.
If you’d rather not do it alone this year, here’s where you start: