A live webinar for parents of elementary and middle school kids with ADHD

What Your ADHD Kid Can’t Tell You Yet

You have watched the meltdown in the kitchen over something small. You have watched your child lose a friend and not be able to tell you why, and you have stood there with no idea what to do next.

This webinar is for you, the parent. You will walk away hearing what your child cannot put into words yet, from a kid who grew up, became an ADHD coach, and can say it now.

Live on Zoom·Tuesday, September 29·11:30 AM ET

Sixty minutes, with a three-day replay if you cannot make it live.

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Is this for you?

You’re in the right place if...

  • Your child is somewhere between kindergarten and eighth grade, and the hard moments are getting bigger, not smaller.
  • You have tried the charts, the timers, the rewards, and the talks. Some of it helps for a few days, and you want the thing that lasts.
  • You feel like every day ends in a fight nobody wanted, and you want your relationship with your child back.
  • You suspect your child is not doing this on purpose, and you want to understand what is going on instead of guessing.
  • You are ready to work on this as a family, not hand your child off to someone and hope it sticks.
  • You want to hear it from someone who was that kid, not from another parenting book.
What’s inside

What You’ll Walk Away With

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“I’m not giving you a hard time. I’m having a hard time.”

The pushback that looks aimed at you is usually a brain that cannot manage the big emotion, the impulse, or the energy yet. You will learn what is actually going on underneath that moment, and why it comes out as something that feels aimed at you.

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“I’m trying my hardest, even when it looks like I’m being lazy.”

Trying your hardest does not always look like trying. You will learn what your child’s effort looks like on the inside, and why a kid who has spent everything they have ends up on a screen, or doing the exact thing they are not supposed to be doing.

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“You are my lighthouse.”

Your child looks to you for what to do next, even on the days they cannot say so. You will learn the one thing they need from you before their brain can settle enough to figure anything out.

Here’s what you need to know

Nothing about your child needs to be fixed.
It needs to be figured out.

Your child has everything they need to grow up well with ADHD. The missing piece is not a better chart, a stricter routine, or more consequences.

It is understanding. Not another explanation of the ADHD brain, but the words your child does not have yet: what the hard moment feels like inside their body, what they are actually trying to do, and what they need from you while it is happening.

Sixty minutes that let you see your child the way they wish you could.

Your child is not trying to make your life harder. They are trying to figure out a brain nobody handed them a manual for.

Tyler Dorsey · Focus Forward
By the end of the hour

What Changes the Next Time It Happens

  • You can tell what is actually going on in the hard moment, instead of guessing at it.
  • You stop reading “lazy” into a kid who is stuck, and you start seeing the effort they are spending the whole time.
  • You know what your child needs from you first, before anything else you say can land.
  • You stop taking the pushback personally, because you know where it is coming from.
  • You have words for what your child cannot say yet, which is where every other change starts.

Not a trick for this week, and not a promise that tomorrow is easy. A different read on your child, that you carry into the next hard moment and every one after it.

Your host

Meet Tyler

Tyler Dorsey, founder of Focus Forward, seated at a desk with a mug of coffee
Tyler Dorsey · Founder, Focus Forward · Fellow ADHD-er

Tyler was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia in fifth grade. She was the kid who could not sit still, could not stop talking, and could not explain why the small stuff felt so big.

Her parents loved her and did not have the map. She spent years figuring out what was happening under the surface and how to work with the brain she has.

She founded Focus Forward in 2014 and has worked with 11,000+ parents, students, and adults since then. Every coach on her team works with the child and the parent together, because the skill gets built at home, not in a session.

What that means for you is that nothing in this hour comes from a textbook. It comes from someone who sat in your child’s seat and now sits beside families like yours every week.

How it works

Live on Zoom. One Hour. Bring Your Questions.

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Your name and your email. That is the whole form.

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Check your inbox

The Zoom link lands within minutes. Put it somewhere you will find it Tuesday.

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Show up Tuesday

Bring a cup of coffee and whatever moment from this week is still sitting with you.

There will be time for your questions at the end. Cannot make it live? Save your seat anyway and the replay comes straight to your inbox, with three days to watch it.

Your next step

Hear It From the Kid Who Lived It.

Tuesday, September 29 · 11:30 AM ET · 3-day replay sent to everyone who registers

Enter your name and email below and your seat is saved. Sixty minutes that let you hear what your child cannot say yet, so the next hard moment goes differently for both of you.