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ADHD Mums
Being a mum is hard enough. Being a mum with ADHD — or raising neurodivergent kids is a whole different level. ADHD Mums is the unfiltered, science-meets-reality podcast hosted by Jane McFadden, educational neuroscientist, advocate, and mother of three. This isn’t another polished parenting show wi...
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282 episodis
4. What Do I Do When Being Reasonable Hasn't Worked? The School Escalation Pathway Schools Don't Tell You About - with Sara Hocking
The principal told you to contact region. Region told you to contact the principal. You're sitting in your car wondering if you're going quietly insan...
4. They Took Away the Village and Handed Us the iPad. Then They Told Us Not to Use It.
A friend came over the other day. She'd just done a week on the Sunshine Coast with her three kids, the whole pack-up by herself. We were sitting at m...
3 Reasons ADHD Mum Rage Feels Like It Came Out of Nowhere. (It Didn't.)
I picked up the kids in my husband's car the other day. The youngest said something. The next one waited until they finished, then said something back...
It's 11:40pm. I'm Not on My Phone for Fun. I'm on the Password Reset Page for the Third Time
You're at the dinner table you fought to make happen. Your phone lights up — school app, swimming's been moved, the bag has to be packed tonight. You...
4 Reasons You Can't Eat Breakfast Until the Kitchen's Clean. Why Most Advice Won't Work — and the One Thing That Will.
Listener Question Episode: Bec drops the kids at school, the kitchen's a mess, and she can't let herself eat breakfast until it's clean. Loads the was...
1. Season 4 Launch: Who Am I If I Stop Being In Service to Everyone in My Life?
The cafe moment. A waiter. Six seconds of blank silence. I've ordered for everyone in my life for 40 years and when someone asked what I wanted, there...
108. 'Supportive of What?' The Year a Friend Asked Me One Question and Broke the Season 3
The birthday of ADHD Mums came and went and I didn't celebrate. I'd spent a whole season demanding a seat at the table. By the end of it I was in bed,...
Sorry I'm Late. I Have ADHD.' But .... My Friend Has ADHD Too. She's Never Late
Sorry I'm late. I have ADHD. So does my friend. She's sitting at the coffee shop halfway through her first one, watching me sweat through the door twe...
He'll Eat When He's Hungry.' Three Years Later My Son Was in Hospital on a Feeding Tube with Tracy Jewel Constable
You take your child to the doctor. You tell them this isn't fussy, this isn't a phase. They tell you he'll grow out of it. Maybe it's his tonsils. May...
I'm Gentle With My Daughter for Ten Minutes. Then I Tell Myself to Stop Being Such a F*cking Embarrassment
You can talk your daughter down in two minutes. Then you turn around and tell yourself to stop being such a f*cking embarrassment.
Same brain. S...
104. When a Neuroscientist Says iPads Cause ADHD — And You Wonder if You've Damaged Your Kids
Sometimes the only thing that got you through the day was the iPad.
And then you scrolled past a clip telling you screens are rewiring your kid'...
103: When You Say 'I Don't Mind, Whatever's Easy' for Mother's Day — And Spend Sunday Cleaning Up Your Own Gifts
There's a script around Mother's Day that doesn't account for any of us.
You're meant to want a candle, a coffee, a sleep-in, and to look visibl...
When You Stop Calling Your Friend and Start Talking to ChatGPT — And You're Not Sure What It's Costing You
Half the conversations about AI are men in San Francisco telling you it'll change everything. The other half are people telling you it'll destroy the...
101. When You Stop Your Meds for the Baby — And the Pram Rolls Across the Car Park
This podcast episode is not a replacement for individual medical advice and is general education only.
You go to the mother's group, you don't p...
When You Know School Isn't Working — And You're Still Waiting for Permission to Leave
You've spent more time on drop-offs, pickups and meetings this week than your kid has spent actually learning.
You keep telling yourself the rou...
When the Teacher Asks ‘What Can I Do to Help? But You Don’t Know What to Say
If your child looks ‘fine’ at school… but falls apart the second they get home —
this episode is for you.
🧠 What We Cover in This Episode...
When School Feels Too Much Too Early — Expectation Creep Explained
If you’ve ever sat in a school meeting
hearing what’s ‘expected’…
and thought
‘this feels like too much… too early’ —
this epi...
98. When You Say ‘Can We Talk’ — And It Blows Up Straight Away
If you’ve ever said
‘can we just talk about something?’
and it escalates
before you’ve even said the thing —
this episode is f...
The Invisible Job: Being the One Who Holds Everything Together
If you’ve ever stepped away for five minutes…
come back…
and everything has already escalated —
this episode is for you.
Becau...
When You Keep Starting the Same Thing — And It Never Gets Finished
In this episode, we unpack the invisible load of trying to do something simple inside a day that won’t hold it. The interruptions, the split attention...
When You Make Yourself the Joke — And It Turns Into ‘That’s Just Who I Am’
In this episode, we unpack the very real (and very common) experience of showing up already stretched… masking it with humour… and then internalising...
When a Group Chat Goes in Circles — And You Leave Feeling Like You’re the Problem
If you’ve ever left a group chat
replaying everything you said…
and everything you didn’t…
and somehow landed on
‘that felt of...
93. When You Remove the Stress — And Start Wondering What’s Wrong With You
If you’ve removed the pressure…
stepped back…
even taken a break…
and you still feel on edge — this episode is for you.
Becaus...
92 The Teen They Called ‘The Problem’ — And What Changed in a Different School Setting
There’s a moment when you realise it’s not just a ‘bad term’ at school.
It’s mornings that feel impossible.
A child who won’t go.
Or...
91. MYTH BUSTING: The Cost of ‘We Didn’t Have ADHD Back Then’
There is a moment at a family barbecue where your child isn’t sitting at the table.
They’re walking.
Talking.
Eating on the move.
90. MYTH BUSTING: ‘We Didn’t Have ADHD When We Were Kids’
Somewhere in almost every ADHD conversation, someone eventually says it.
'There weren't kids like this when I was at school.'
Or the sligh...
When the Quiet Kids Are Struggling — But No One Notices
School systems are built to notice disruption.
The child throwing chairs.
The child refusing to sit down.
The child who can't stay q...
When Being the ‘Good Student’ Is Actually Hurting Your Child
You're told your child is doing great at school.
'Wish I had more like her'
'No issues here.'
But every afternoon at 3pm something e...
88. When Being Reasonable Gets You Nowhere at School
You’ve sent the emails.
You’ve attended the meetings.
You’ve tried to be calm, collaborative, reasonable.
And nothing changes.
...
86. When Teachers Care — But the System Still Breaks Kids
There is a particular kind of confusion that happens when your child likes their teacher.
If you’ve ever thought, ‘But she’s so lovely… why isn’...
85. Is the Problem the Child — Or the Learning Plan?
You’re sitting in a meeting thinking you’re here to talk about support.
There’s a plan. There are ‘adjustments’.
And yet your child is sti...
84. When School Decides Your Child Is the Problem
There is a moment in some school meetings where the language changes.
You walk in expecting support. Adjustments. Solutions.
But then diff...
83. When ADHD Becomes the Reason You Stop Trying...
You’re functioning. Packing lunches. Showing up. Holding it together.
But quietly, inside, you’ve started believing:
‘This is just how it...
82. Overstimulated Before 7am — And No One Sees the Work
This episode is for ADHD mums who feel like they’re living inside a nervous system experiment.
The kind where everything is technically ‘fine’…...
81. The Hidden Cost of Being the 'Good Girl' — How the Mental Load Became Ours
This episode is for ADHD mums who have ever sat in a car park before an assessment and felt their whole nervous system start negotiating with the evid...
The Invisible Coordination Load: Why ADHD Mums Carry the Work Systems Won’t
This episode sits right in the space where mental load, motherhood, and neurodivergence collide.
It’s about the exhaustion that doesn’t come fro...
Why Does My Partner Keep Asking Me Questions When My Brain Is Full?
This episode is for ADHD mums who feel their nervous system spike over questions that look harmless on the surface. The kind of questions that arrive...
78. Grieving the Child You Imagined — While Loving the One in Front of You with Dr Vanessa LaPointe
There is a kind of grief that mums are not supposed to name. It could be called ungrateful.. but a lot of us feel it. So it stays private, carried qui...
77. Turning the Car Around for the Hat — So It Must Be Me
Responsibility’s already on me.
If this tips, it’ll be because I waited too long.
That’s how the morning starts.
There’s a clock run...
76. Always Leaving First — The Social Cost for ADHD Mums
You can feel it tipping before anyone else does.
Everyone’s still chatting, still comfortable, and your body’s already tightening.
You kno...