Sasha Hamdani

Because not only are you having to manage your own brain, you're having to manage and guide little people's brains as well.

Yes.

And model good behavior.

And from the logistical standpoint, it feels like it's just a lot to do.

My kids are in

two separate classes, which is two different class party schedules and two different field trip schedules and two different teachers and end of school things and parent-teacher conferences.

And that probably doesn't sound super overwhelming,

But that's so hard for me to keep track of it.

Which one is this?

Which one is this?

And like, you have to really create good systems around that.

And I think the most, most vital thing that I could tell anybody who is parenting with an ADHD brain, give yourself grace.

let yourself mess up and have a hard time.

Because when I got pregnant, I had numerous Pinterest boards of the kind of parent I wanted to be, like what I wanted their nursery to look like.

Immediately you have this kid, you're sleep deprived, you have breast milk everywhere.

This is just not what you thought it was.

And that goes out the window.

And you're just like, this is probably going to be harder than what I thought.

And one of the best things that we've done as a family is work through moments that are hard and difficult kind of together as a team and problem solving.

So there are times this literally happened two days ago where I was just like,