Supporting parents of pre-school children with ADHD
The Mindful Mama Collective
Helping children become more comfortable with themselves, and parents more confident in how they support them.
If you have a young child with ADHD, this might feel familiar…
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Fine in some environments… but everything falls apart at home
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Needs constant support or gets stuck
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Avoids, argues, or shuts down over small things
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Can cope one minute… then suddenly overwhelmed
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Big feelings can build quickly, while understanding what is happening emotionally is still developing.
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Seems like they understand… but instructions don’t stay
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Finds change really stressful
This isn’t just behaviour...
Many children feel emotions before they have the words to explain them.
For children with ADHD, those feelings can come quickly and intensely,
while the part of the brain that helps them slow down and make sense of it is still developing.
When there’s no clear structure, no direction, and everything feels uncertain…
the behaviour is what you see on the surface.
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.
Growing School Ready
A four-week programme designed to help parents support their child's emotional development, confidence and readiness for preschool or school.
Whether your child has ADHD, is waiting for assessment, shows signs of neurodivergence, or simply needs a little extra support, this programme focuses on the foundations that help children thrive as they take their next big step.
Emotional Understanding Journey
For families looking beyond today and building foundations for the future.
A six-month guided pathway helping children develop emotional awareness, confidence, resilience, self-understanding, and the skills to navigate childhood, adolescence, and beyond.
🐾 Let's Take The Journey Together
Support for Today & Growth for Tomorrow
Why Stories and Play Work
Young children cannot learn emotional regulation through instruction alone.Understanding develops through stories, play, and repeated experiences.The Casper & Bentley resources gently introduce emotional language so children can recognise feelings before they are expected to manage them.
Ongoing support for your child’s development
Resources
The Casper and Bentley resources are used by:
• parents supporting children with ADHD
• home-school families
• nurseries and early years settings
• primary school classrooms
The aim is not simply to manage behaviour, but to help children gradually understand themselves emotionally over time.
Parent Support Sessions
Need something more immediate?
If you’re looking for one-to-one support, I offer individual parent sessions where we can focus on what’s happening in your home and what to do next.
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.
"The ADHD you need to support is the ADHD that sits in the chair opposite you when you're on your own."