How many tabs about ADHD do you have open right now?

Be honest. On your phone, on your laptop, the ones you meant to come back to. The article about dopamine. The one about demand avoidance. The routine chart someone swore by. The podcast episode you saved at 11pm.

Here is what I want you to know: you are not a parent who lacks information about ADHD. You are one of the best informed parents I know. You could probably explain executive function better than your GP can.

And your Tuesday morning still sucks.

That gap, between everything you know and what actually happens in your house at 7.4...

Parent staying calm and close while a child with ADHD moves through a big emotional moment at home.

The toast was cut the wrong way.

That's all it took. One diagonal instead of two rectangles, and the whole afternoon is gone. Tears, a slammed door, a feeling so big it swallows the room, over something that to anyone else looks like nothing.

If you've stood in your kitchen thinking "how is this the hill we're dying on today," you are not alone, and your child is not being dramatic on purpose. In a child with ADHD, big emotions arrive faster and bigger than they do for other children, and the b...