FROM THE LIBRARY WORKSHOP
How to (Actually) Motivate Your Kid This School Year
Thank you so much to everyone who joined me at the library! I loved our conversation, and my favorite part was all of the collaboration and idea-sharing at the end.
For those who could not make it, or anyone who wants to revisit what we covered, I hope these resources give you a useful place to start.
Want help turning these ideas into an actual system?
Supercharge Your School Year gives students and families practical, ADHD-friendly routines for mornings, planning, schoolwork, transitions, and recovering when a week does not go according to plan.
KEEP EXPLORING
Resources mentioned during the workshop
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The SNAP Method
A fan favorite for kids, teens, college students, adults, and anyone who needs a simpler way to get started.
Explore the SNAP MethodThe ADHD Iceberg
See what may be happening beneath the behaviors we notice first, including executive function challenges, overwhelm, and emotional regulation.
Watch the full ADHD Iceberg videoThe ADHD Perfectionism Tool
An interactive way to recognize when perfectionism is adding steps, delaying a task, or making it harder to begin.
Explore the Perfectionism Loop
THE KEY IS NOT A PERFECT WEEK
A better school year needs a system students can return to.
The beginning of a school year can feel full of possibility. There are fresh supplies, new schedules, good intentions, and sometimes even a planner that gets used for an entire week.
Then one hard Tuesday happens.
An assignment gets missed. Something feels confusing. A student gets behind, avoids checking, and suddenly one difficult week starts turning into the whole semester.
Supercharge Your School Year was created to interrupt that pattern.
It does not expect students to stay perfectly consistent. It gives them simple routines, visual tools, and repeatable check-ins that help them notice what is coming, decide what matters, get started, and come back when the plan falls apart.
Practical tools. Immediate access. Built for real weeks, not perfect ones.
INSIDE THE SYSTEM
- Simple ADHD-friendly routines students can use right away
- Support for mornings, planning, homework, and transitions
- A Sunday reset for seeing what is coming
- A midweek check-in for rescuing what slipped
- Tools for restarting without shame or an all-or-nothing reset