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The evOLVED Brain: ADHD Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, & Raising Extraordinary Kids
The evOLVED Brain: ADHD Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, & Raising Extraordinary Kids
The Evolved Brain is a parenting podcast focused on raising children with ADHD. Host Lara Dawn, a longtime teacher and ADHD parenting coach, offers strategies for reducing overwhelm and building connection, confidence, and calm. Episodes cover nervous system regulation, reducing meltdowns, encouraging cooperation without punishment, and strengthening focus and emotional regulation. The show also explores how parents can shift their own patterns and grow alongside their children.
Episodes
Homework and ADHD: Should Kids With ADHD Have Homework?
Why is homework so difficult for children with ADHD? In this episode of The evOLVED Brain, Lara Dawn explores ADHD homework battles, executive function, homework refusal and what research says about homework by age. Learn how to distinguish between a child who needs more support and an expectation that may need to change. Before you listen: Subscribe to The evOLVED Brain and send this episode to a
Why Is My Smart ADHD Child Struggling in School? | ADHD Study & Executive Function Tips
Your ADHD Child Isn't Lazy: They Were Never Taught How to Learn Subscribe to The evOLVED Brain and share this episode with a parent whose brilliant child is struggling to show what they know. Has anyone ever told you: "Your child has so much potential... if only they would apply themselves." For a child with ADHD who is trying, those words can hurt. Because sometimes the problem isn't intelligence
Back to School with ADHD: What Parents Need to Know
What if your ADHD child doesn't need to get better at school? What if school needs to get better at understanding your child? As back-to-school season begins, it's easy to slip right back into the old worries: The missing assignments. The difficult mornings. The calls from the teacher. The unfinished homework. The grades. But this year, I want you to try something different. Instead of asking, "Ho
ADHD and Anxiety By Overcoming the Wall of Awful - With Brendan Mahan
Your child is sitting in front of their homework. The instructions are clear. The task may only take ten minutes. But they cannot begin. From the outside, it can look like procrastination, defiance, or a lack of motivation. Inside, your child may be facing what ADHD coach and author Brendan Mahan calls the Wall of Awful: an emotional barrier built from past struggles, shame, guilt, rejection, disa
Why ADHD Parenting Feels So Hard (And the Shift That Changes Everything)
If you've ever found yourself crying in the car after another hard day… wondering why nothing you've tried seems to work… or feeling like you're failing your child… This episode is for you. As a special education teacher, I knew the strategies. As an ADHD mom… I couldn't access them. In this deeply personal episode, I share the story that changed everything for me. The day I realized there weren't
Why Fair Isn't Equal: Julie Cole on Raising Neurodivergent Kids
Why Fair Isn't Equal: Julie Cole on Raising Neurodivergent Kids 🎧 Before You Listen... If this episode encourages you, would you do me a quick favour? ✨ Subscribe to The evOLVED Brain so you never miss an episode. ✨ Share this episode with one parent, teacher, or caregiver who needs this conversation today. Together, we're changing the way the world understands ADHD and neurodivergent children. ❤️
Why Your ADHD Child's Behaviour Triggers You So Much (And What To Do About It)
🎧 Before you listen... Have you ever found yourself yelling, overreacting, worrying constantly, or lying awake at 3 a.m. wondering if you're doing enough for your ADHD child? What if the biggest challenge in ADHD parenting isn't your child's behaviour? What if it's the thoughts running through your own mind? This episode could completely change how you see yourself, your child, and your parenting
What's Crushing ADHD Kids ISN'T ADHD - ADHD Parenting and the Hidden Weight of Shame
ADHD parenting is often focused on symptoms, behavior, executive functioning, and emotional regulation. But what if the thing hurting your child most isn't ADHD at all? What if it's the thousands of messages children with ADHD receive that tell them they're lazy, difficult, disruptive, irresponsible, too much, or not enough? Children with ADHD can often learn strategies to manage symptoms. What is
Warrior Mama Missions: 11 Days That Could Change the Next 11 Years
Warrior Mama Missions begins on June 11! Join now for only $11! Warrior Mama Missions | Opt In What if the next 11 days could change the next 11 years of your family? Not because your child changes. Not because their ADHD disappears. But because YOU begin showing up differently. In this special episode of The evOLVED Brain, Lara Dawn shares the story behind Warrior Mama Missions, an 11-day experie
The Ferrari Brain: Dr. Ned Hallowell on the Gifts and Challenges of ADHD
What if ADHD isn't a deficit at all? What if the very traits we spend so much time trying to fix are actually the traits that help our children create, innovate, imagine, and change the world? In this inspiring conversation, Lara Dawn sits down with world-renowned ADHD expert, psychiatrist, bestselling author, and ADHD advocate Dr. Edward Hallowell to discuss a radically different way of understan
The Parenting Advice That's Making ADHD Behaviour WORSE!
Have you tried the sticker charts… the consequences… taking things away… being firmer… more consistent… …and somehow things only got worse? More meltdowns. More yelling. More shame. More disconnection. If you've ever found yourself wondering: "Why does this seem to work for everyone else's kids… but not mine?" This episode will change the way you understand your child's behavior forever. In this p
The ADHD Traits You've Been Told to Fix May be Your Child's Super Powers!
What if the very ADHD traits you've been trying to manage are actually the traits your child may one day rely on most? In this episode of The evOLVED Brain, Lara Dawn explores ADHD through an evolved lens, shifting away from the traditional deficit model and toward a strengths-based understanding of neurodivergent brains. From distractibility and hyperactivity to disorganization and impulsivity, L
Why Mother's Day Hurts More When You're Raising an ADHD Child
Mother's Day can bring love, connection… and unexpected heartbreak, especially when you're raising neurodivergent children. In this deeply honest episode of The evOLVED Brain, Lara Dawn explores the hidden emotional wounds many mothers carry and why parenting ADHD children often awakens feelings of rejection, failure, perfectionism, and emotional exhaustion. What if your child's behavior is not di
The evOLVED Woman: Why Saying Yes to Yourself Makes You a Better Mother!
What if becoming a better mother had nothing to do with doing more for your child… and everything to do with saying yes to yourself? In this powerful and deeply honest conversation, Lara Dawn sits down with Carin Rockind, CEO of the Institute of Woman, to explore how women can reclaim their joy, identity, and power beyond motherhood. So many mothers lose themselves in the roles of parenting, espec
ADHD PARENTING: You're Not Missing a Strategy... You're Missing THIS!
If you've been trying all the strategies and still feeling stuck, this episode will change how you see everything. Because the greatest tool in your parenting is not a strategy. It is you. In this episode of The evOLVED Brain, Lara Dawn introduces the LOVE Ü Method, a powerful, holistic approach to ADHD parenting rooted in self-regulation, intuition, connection, validation, and emotional intellige
Why Your ADHD Child Won't Listen (Until You Do This First)!
If your ADHD child won't listen, it's not because they don't care. It's because their brain can't. In this episode of The evOLVED Brain, Lara Dawn shares one of the most powerful shifts in ADHD parenting: Regulation before reasoning. Because the truth is simple and profound. You cannot reason with a dysregulated brain. When your child is overwhelmed, melting down, or reacting in big ways, their ne
ADHD Parenting: What if it is not a Deficit, But an Evolution?
What if everything that you have been taught about ADHD Parenting was wrong? What if your child's ADHD is not something to fix but something to understand? In this first episode of The evOLVED Brain, Lara Dawn introduces a transformative perspective on ADHD that challenges the traditional deficit model and invites you into a new paradigm of parenting. Drawing on her experience as a teacher of 25 y
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