MindfulMama
Understanding ADHD Through Development
Helping young children understand themselves through stories, play and everyday experiences
Introducing the Mindful Mama Development Pathway
A supported four-week programme designed to help you understand your child's development, build practical skills and feel more confident supporting them every day.
If you have a young child with ADHD, this might sound familiar...
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Emotional outbursts that seem to come from nowhere.
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Struggles with routines or transitions.
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Feeling unsure how to respond.
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Wondering whether it's behaviour, development or something else.
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Feeling overwhelmed by conflicting advice.
The Mindful Mama Development Pathway takes a different approach.
Rather than focusing only on behaviour, we'll explore what may be happening beneath the behaviour, helping you understand your child's development and build the skills that matter most.
Support for Today & Growth for Tomorrow
Whether you're just beginning to understand your child or you're looking for practical resources to use every day, MindfulMama offers support for every stage of your journey.
Educators
Start by understanding your child's development.
If you're feeling overwhelmed or unsure where to begin, explore the ideas behind the MindfulMama Development Pathway through the podcast, blogs and parent guides.
Development in Action
Helping children understand themselves through stories, practical tools and everyday experiences.
Explore the Casper & Bentley collection designed to build emotional language, self-awareness and confidence through repeated everyday experiences.
Parents
Because development is a journey, not a race.
Every child develops at their own pace. These programmes and support sessions are designed to help you recognise progress, build confidence and move forward together.
Evidence-Based Support With Real-Life Understanding
My work combines current research in ADHD, child development, emotional intelligence, and executive function with over two decades of lived experience as a parent of neurodivergent children and as an adult with ADHD myself.
Everything I create is grounded in evidence, practical experience, and a deep understanding that every child and family is different.
Why Stories and Play Work
Children don't develop emotional understanding from a single conversation.
They build it gradually through repeated everyday experiences.
Stories allow children to explore thoughts, feelings and situations in a safe way before they experience them in real life.
Play gives children opportunities to practise new ways of thinking, problem-solving and understanding themselves.
At MindfulMama, stories and play aren't simply activities. They're part of the developmental journey.
"My work brings together current research in ADHD, child development, neuroscience and psychology with practical experience and lived experience as both a parent of neurodivergent children and an adult with ADHD. My aim is to translate research into practical, developmentally appropriate support that parents and educators can use in everyday life."