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Just 'Find a Good Stopping Place on the Ipad' It's 5:45pm on a Wednesday. He's in a Minecraft Cave. The Dog Needs a Bone.
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- ADHD Mums
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- Jun 22, 2026
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- 1739
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Summary
📬 Listener Questions & Community It's 5:45 PM. I'm cooking three separate dinners on not enough burners. My six-year-old is crying about the green spoon. My eight-year-old is in a Minecraft cave with a dog that needs a bone. My ten-year-old has found paint. 'Find a good stopping place' is good advice. It just assumes conditions that don't exist in this house. What We Cover The 5:45 PM scenario in full — three kids, three meals, three headphones, zero spare burners, and what it actually costs to transition one child off a screen while managing the rest Compliance depletion — why your child has run out of yeses by dinner time, and why that's not defiance or addiction Self-determination theory and autonomy — why the iPad might be the only thing your child got to choose all day, and what happens when you take it Why 'find a good stopping place' works on Saturday morning and collapses on Wednesday night — and what's actually different between those two moments The working memory piece — why your child isn't defying the boundary, they just can't hold it without you standing there Task-switching costs for the ADHD brain — what every transition actually costs you at the end of the day Why you're not managing the transitions. You are the transition. The Saturday morning benchmark — why one good morning doesn't set the standard, and why comparing Wednesday night to it is destroying you What the parenting advice doesn't account for: one adult, multiple kids, depleted executive function, and no support Free Resources Surviving the Mental Load of the School Year (Free) 👉 https://adhdmums.com.au/product/adhd-school-year-mental-load-kit/ Household Family Meeting Template (Free) 👉 https://adhdmums.com.au/product/adhd-household-family-meeting-template/ Paid Resource Meltdown &…