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Being a mum is hard enough. Being a mum with ADHD — or raising neurodivergent kids — is a whole different level. ADHD Mums is the unfiltered, science-meets-reality podcast hosted by Jane McFadden — an Autistic and ADHD mum with a Master's in Neuroscience and Psychology and certification as an ADHD and Autism assessor. This isn't another polished parenting show with 'ten easy tips'. It's real stories, confessions we're not supposed to say out loud, and the research that explains why so many of us are running on empty. Every week you'll hear: 🎙️ Confessions — raw, anonymous truths from mums navigating rage, burnout, and survival. 🧠 Expert insights — from clinicians, researchers, and policy leaders on ADHD, autism, and mental health. 💬 Advocacy in action — exposing ADHD medication shortages, NDIS red tape, and the hidden costs mothers carry. With over 1 million downloads from around the world, the podcast has influenced ADHD reforms in Australia, been featured in national media, and pushed politicians to answer the questions mothers are asking. If you've ever screamed in the car, forgotten every form until the night before, or wondered if you're the only one falling apart — this podcast is your proof that you're not broken, you're just telling the truth.
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- 2 days ago39 min
55. Kids and Chores: ‘It’s Easier to Just Do It Myself.’ Why We Keep Asking the Easy Kid (with Gen Muir)
‘It’s not fair!’ You’ve heard it so many times you could scream. And the worst part? Sometimes they’re right.You keep asking the kid who says yes. The one who does it properly, first time, without the whinging. It’s faster. It’s quieter. And it might be quietly teaching her the exact thing you’ve spent years trying to unlearn.Parenting educator Gen Muir is back. We get into why one kid ends up carrying more, why so many boys genuinely don’t see the towel on the floor, what to do about the plate that never makes it back from the rumpus room, and how to hold a chores boundary when you’re the one with ADHD and consistency is the hard bit. Plus the one line Gen would put on your fridge.Listen to the whole Mental Load series: Mental Load seriesMore episodes you might like:Gen’s first episode with me, on sibling rivalry: Sibling PeaceWhere the good girl pattern starts: Good Girl ConditioningIf you’re the one doing everything, I wrote Doing Too Much for mums whose problem isn’t doing too little. It’s a printed workbook, posted to you, that helps you work out what to put down first. Doing Too Much workbook.About GenGen Muir is a parent educator, obstetric social worker and founder of Connected Parenting. Her new book, Why Kids Need Boundaries, is out now.Connected ParentingBeyond the Chaos podcast with Amy GerardHigh Low Buffalo CardsReferencesMueller, C. M., & Dweck, C. S. (1998). Praise for intelligence can undermine children’s motivation and performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(1), 33-52.📬 Listener Questions & Community🎙️ Ask a Listener Question (voice)Voice notes are preferred when possible — hearing your voice helps add context — but you’re very welcome to submit a written question instead.Send a WhatsApp voice or written on 0403 457 313All the top rated episodes sorted by topic👥 Join the ADHD Mums Facebook Group👥 Receive the episodes in your inbox
- 1 weeks ago26 min
42. ADHD and Screen Time: Why Taking the iPad Away Won’t Fix Homework
‘If you can focus on that, you can focus on this.’ You said it standing at the bench, and he looked at you like you’d said it in another language.He’s just died fifteen times on the same level and gone again. Ten maths questions, Year 4 stuff he’s done before, and a minute and a half later he’s picking the sticker off his drink bottle. Is he lazy? Is he doing it on purpose? Is he choosing? A listener asked all three, and the answer isn’t the one the screen-time argument gives you. Taking the iPad away doesn’t fix it, and there’s a reason.More on school and homework: the school collectionhttps://tr.ee/schoolcollectionMentioned in this episode: Why You Snap at 4pm When You Were Fine at 9amhttps://tr.ee/qa3RcmxWoqThe free Energy Accounting Guide I mention, for working out how much your child has left by homework timehttps://adhdmums.com.au/product/adhd-mums-energy-accounting-guide/If homework is one more thing the school hands you to sort out at the kitchen bench, When School Isn’t Working is the guide I wish I’d had: the scripts, the rights and the plans for when the system doesn’t fit your child. Doing this on your own and money’s tight? Email me at jane@adhdmums.com.au.https://adhdmums.com.au/product/making-school-work-parent-guide/ReferencesSonuga-Barke, E. J., Taylor, E., Sembi, S. & Smith, J. (1992). Hyperactivity and delay aversion I: The effect of delay on choice. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 33(2), 387–398.Antrop, I. et al. (2006). ADHD and delay aversion: the influence of non-temporal stimulation on choice for delayed rewards. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(11), 1152–1158.Lemiere, J. et al. (2012). Brain activation to cues predicting inescapable delay in adolescent ADHD: an fMRI pilot study. Brain Research, 1450, 57–66.📬 Listener Questions & Community🎙️ Ask a Listener Question (voice)Voice notes are preferred when possible — hearing your voice helps add context — but you’re very welcome to submit a written question instead.Send a WhatsApp voice or written on 0403 457 313All the top rated episodes sorted by topic👥 Join the ADHD Mums Facebook Group👥 Receive the episodes in your inbox Mentioned in this episode:Free ResourcesFree Resouces
- 1 weeks ago51 min
41. PDA and Low-Demand Parenting: When the Demands Don't Disappear, They Land on You
Have you ever done everything right — dropped the demand, softened the ask, delivered it the one way that works — walked out of the room for two minutes, and come back to a child on the floor who won't get up for an hour because someone else said it wrong? Have you ever quietly decided it's easier to just do all of it yourself, every time, than risk the fallout of handing it over?Low-demand parenting has saved families. Nobody talks about where the demand actually goes when it drops off the child. Rachel Few came on to say the thing she's watching happen in her clinic and nowhere else — that it lands on the mum, and she's already carrying more than anyone can see.RESOURCES & REFERENCESFree ResourcesEnergy Accounting Guide — for finding where your limit actually is when you've been running on empty — https://adhdmums.com.au/product/adhd-mums-energy-accounting-guide/Household Family Meeting Template — for the 'why does all the communication land on me' default-parent dynamic — https://adhdmums.com.au/product/adhd-household-family-meeting-template/Paid ResourcesMeltdown & Shutdown Guide — a printed, posted guide for the meltdowns and shutdowns Rachel maps through this episode — https://adhdmums.com.au/product/navigating-meltdowns-strategies-for-parents/ADHD Mums Shop — https://adhdmums.com.au/shop/Related EpisodesIs PDA Real and What Can We Do About It? — with Michelle Garnett — https://adhdmums.com.au/podcast_episode/episode-30-could-it-be-pda-exploring-the-signs-and-why-its-different-from-odd/Meltdowns — with Tania Waring — https://adhdmums.com.au/podcast_episode/episode-31-meltdowns-with-tania-waring/What We Wish Our Partners Knew About the Mental Load — Jane solo — https://adhdmums.com.au/podcast_episode/episode-75-what-we-wish-our-partners-knew-about-the-mental-load-and-how-to-truly-support-us/Self-Care Feels Nice. Self-Regulation Keeps You Alive. — Jane solo — https://adhdmums.com.au/podcast_episode/episode-53-quick-reset-self-care-feels-nice-self-regulation-keeps-you-alive/Rachel's earlier episodes:Overstimulated Before 7am — And No One Sees the Work — Rachel's first, one of the most-consumed on the show — https://adhdmums.com.au/episode/rachel-fewADHD and Survival Mode: How to Stop Trying Harder and Actually Thrive — https://adhdmums.com.au/adhd-podcast-episodes/adhd-survival-mode-trying-harder-thriving/About the GuestRachel Few runs Neurodivergent Counselling and Mentoring on the Sunshine Coast — telehealth, available Australia-wide. A neurodivergent mother herself, she works with women and mums on identity, burnout and thriving after diagnosis, and she's on the ground with what she's seeing in the room right now.Website: https://rachelfew.com/📬 Listener Questions & Community🎙️ Ask a Listener Question (voice)Voice notes are preferred when possible — hearing your voice helps add context — but you’re very welcome to submit a written question instead.Send a WhatsApp voice or written on 0403 457 313Send a SMS voice or written on 0403 457 313<str
- 2 weeks ago18 min
46. ADHD Medication: ‘You Want to Give Him Speed?’ He Read the Label Out Loud at the Kitchen Bench
The script sat in your handbag for three weeks. Not because you’d changed your mind, but because you didn’t know what you’d say when he found it.Then you told him over the dishes, and he didn’t even turn around. ‘I’m not giving a seven-year-old drugs.’ He asked what was actually in it, and you couldn’t answer. Argument over.If you’re weighing up ADHD medication for your child, and someone at home has read ‘amphetamine’ off the label, this one’s for you. A listener sent me this exact voice memo, and I see versions of it in our group all the time.More on ADHD medication: the medication collectionhttps://tr.ee/medicationMentioned in this episode: Expectation Creep Explainedhttps://adhdmums.com.au/adhd-podcast-episodes/when-school-feels-too-much-too-early-expectation-creep-explained/If you want the plain-English version to hand to whoever’s asking the questions, A Guide to ADHD Medication is the one I wish I’d had at the kitchen bench.https://adhdmums.com.au/product/a-guide-to-adhd-medication/ReferencesVolkow, N. D. & Swanson, J. M. (2003). Variables that affect the clinical use and abuse of methylphenidate in the treatment of ADHD. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160(11), 1909–1918.Shaw, P. et al. (2007). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is characterized by a delay in cortical maturation. PNAS, 104(49), 19649–19654.Quinn, P. D. et al. (2017). ADHD medication and substance-related problems. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174(9), 877–885.📬 Listener Questions & Community🎙️ Ask a Listener Question (voice)Voice notes are preferred when possible — hearing your voice helps add context — but you’re very welcome to submit a written question instead.Send a WhatsApp voice or written on 0403 457 313All the top rated episodes sorted by topic👥 Join the ADHD Mums Facebook Group👥 Receive the episodes in your inbox
- 2 weeks ago31 min
45. Parenting ADHD Kids: You’ve Made a Rod for Your Own Back
Have you ever been to a friend’s house where the kids walk around like they’re in a library, and yours are running like it’s a race car track? And on the drive home you’re already doing the maths on what she’s doing that you’re not.If you’re parenting ADHD kids, you know the list. You’ve read the books. You do the warnings, the timers, the snack in the car. And the noise in your house still doesn’t match the effort. So is any of it working, or have you made a rod for your own back?A listener sent me this exact question as a voice memo, and so many of you have asked it in the group.More on parenting ADHD kids: the parenting collectionhttps://tr.ee/parentingEverything I’ve made for mums in the thick of this is in the shop.https://adhdmums.com.au/shop/ReferencesAgnew-Blais, J. C. et al. (2022). Mother’s and children’s ADHD genetic risk, household chaos and children’s ADHD symptoms: a gene–environment correlation study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63(10), 1153–1163.Daley, D. et al. (2014). Behavioral interventions in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials across multiple outcome domains. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 53(8), 835–847.📬 Listener Questions & Community🎙️ Ask a Listener Question (voice)Voice notes are preferred when possible — hearing your voice helps add context — but you’re very welcome to submit a written question instead.Send a WhatsApp voice or written on 0403 457 313All the top rated episodes sorted by topic👥 Join the ADHD Mums Facebook Group👥 Receive the episodes in your inbox Mentioned in this episode:Free ResourcesFree Resouces
- 3 weeks ago20 min
44. Does Social Media Make ADHD Worse? You’ve Saved Hundreds of ‘That’s Me’ Reels and Nothing’s Changed
Only 5% of the most-watched ADHD videos tell you what to do next. The misleading ones get millions more views.You’ve saved hundreds of them. They all say the same thing: that’s me.So does social media make ADHD worse? A listener asked me exactly that, and halfway through asking, she lost her own train of thought. I get into the question underneath it. Not what the reels make you feel, but what they’ve actually changed. Plus a 10-minute sort for the saved folder on your phone that you can do tonight.And why one piece of anonymous feedback changed the whole direction of this podcast.New here? Start with these episodesMore on moving past ‘that’s me’: ADHD and Survival Mode: How to Stop Trying Harder and Actually Thrive (with Rachel Few)The lipoedema surgery I mention: The Real Cost of Lipedema Surgery in AustraliaReferencesSieferle, K., Guidi, T., Dorr, F., & Bitzer, E. M. (2025). Quality and perception of ADHD content on TikTok. JMIR Infodemiology.Yeung, A., Ng, E., & Abi-Jaoude, E. (2022). TikTok and ADHD: a cross-sectional study of social media content quality. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.📬 Listener Questions & Community🎙️ Ask a Listener Question (voice)Voice notes are preferred when possible — hearing your voice helps add context — but you’re very welcome to submit a written question instead.Send a WhatsApp voice or written on 0403 457 313All the top rated episodes sorted by topic👥 Join the ADHD Mums Facebook Group👥 Receive the episodes in your inbox Mentioned in this episode:Free ResourcesFree Resouces
- 3 weeks ago30 min
43. ADHD Siblings: The Background Child Who Grew Up Beside a Brother Everyone Worried About (with Emily Jade O'Keeffe)
Have you ever looked at your two children — one whose needs are loud, out front, impossible to miss, and one who just gets on with it — and quietly told yourself the second one's fine? Have you ever not gone looking, because who goes hunting for a problem in the child who seems okay, when the other one is taking everything you've got?The quiet one learns to need nothing at all. And it can cost her for years before anyone notices. Emily Jade O'Keeffe was that child — the good girl next to the brother everyone could see — and she didn't spot it in her own daughter until someone else did.RESOURCES & REFERENCESFree ResourcesThe Quiet Exclusion Kit — for the child who copes, complies, and slips under the radar — https://adhdmums.com.au/product/quiet-exclusion-kit/After Your Diagnosis Kit — for the grown 'good girl' who's just realised it was her too — https://adhdmums.com.au/product/adhd-mum-after-diagnosis-kit/Paid ResourcesADHD Reset Workbook — Values, Energy & Planning — for the one who learned to need nothing, working out what she actually needs now — https://adhdmums.com.au/product/adhd-reset-workbook-values-energy-planning-for-adhd-mums/ADHD Mums Shop — https://adhdmums.com.au/shop/Related EpisodesADHD and Marriage: We Separated for 18 Months. Then He Got Diagnosed — with Emily Jade O'Keeffe — https://adhdmums.com.au/adhd-podcast-episodes/husband-adhd-diagnosis-saved-marriage/ Uncovering the Subtle Traits of Autistic Daughters — with Eliza Harris — https://adhdmums.com.au/podcast_episode/episode-62-uncovering-the-subtle-traits-of-autistic-daughters/About the GuestEmily Jade O'Keeffe is a Gold Coast broadcaster who's been number one on breakfast radio for years (102.9, weekdays 5–9am), and she hosts her own podcast, Move Over Mama, with her 14-year-old daughter Millie — interviewing people about who they were as teens and what shaped them. She grew up the eldest of five in a neurodivergent country-town family, and came to her own diagnosis as an adult, after her husband and children.https://www.moveovermama.com/📬 Listener Questions & Community🎙️ Ask a Listener Question (voice)Voice notes are preferred when possible — hearing your voice helps add context — but you’re very welcome to submit a written question instead.Send a WhatsApp voice or written on 0403 457 313Send a SMS voice or written on 0403 457 313👥 Join the ADHD Mums Facebook Group👥 Receive the episodes in your inbox Mentioned in this episode:Free ResourcesFree Resouces
- 4 weeks ago12 min
42. You Decided It for Them: RSD, Mind-Reading and the Rejections That Never Happened
She mentioned a friend called Kel. That was it. That was the whole thing. Twelve seconds, and you'd filed her under no vacancy, decided your kids didn't match, and worked out she already had a Tuesday person.Then the term ended and you didn't sign up again, and she probably has no idea any of it happened. This episode is about the forecast you make in the first few seconds, and whether it was ever true.Related EpisodesEvery RSD episode in one place → https://tr.ee/RSDNavigating School Pick-Up & Social Settings — how ADHD and autistic mums read social situations, how neurotypical people do, and how to bridge the gap → https://adhdmums.com.au/product/surviving-school-pick-up/📬 Listener Questions & Community🎙️ Ask a Listener Question (voice)Voice notes are preferred when possible — hearing your voice helps add context — but you’re very welcome to submit a written question instead.Send a WhatsApp voice or written on 0403 457 313Send a SMS voice or written on 0403 457 313👥 Join the ADHD Mums Facebook Group👥 Receive the episodes in your inbox Mentioned in this episode:Give away bad for biz - free resources Free Resouces
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About ADHD Mums
Being a mum is hard enough. Being a mum with ADHD — or raising neurodivergent kids — is a whole different level. ADHD Mums is the unfiltered, science-meets-reality podcast hosted by Jane McFadden — an Autistic and ADHD mum with a Master's in Neuroscience and Psychology and certification as an ADHD and Autism assessor. This isn't another polished parenting show with 'ten easy tips'. It's real stories, confessions we're not supposed to say out loud, and the research that explains why so many of us are running on empty. Every week you'll hear: 🎙️ Confessions — raw, anonymous truths from mums navigating rage, burnout, and survival. 🧠 Expert insights — from clinicians, researchers, and policy leaders on ADHD, autism, and mental health. 💬 Advocacy in action — exposing ADHD medication shortages, NDIS red tape, and the hidden costs mothers carry. With over 1 million downloads from around the world, the podcast has influenced ADHD reforms in Australia, been featured in national media, and pushed politicians to answer the questions mothers are asking. If you've ever screamed in the car, forgotten every form until the night before, or wondered if you're the only one falling apart — this podcast is your proof that you're not broken, you're just telling the truth.
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