From Chaos to Connection – Workbook 2: Parent as Model
Emotional Foundations & Regulation Tools for Raising Brilliant ADHD Kids
Be the calm your ADHD child borrows. Regulate first, and watch behavior, connection, and confidence transform.
Designed for real families, this ADHD parenting workbook puts you—the parent—at the center of change. With a neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, and Collaborative Parenting approach, Parent as Model shows how your nervous system becomes your child’s template for emotional regulation, executive function, and resilience. Through evidence-informed strategies, reflection prompts, and parent-child scripts, you’ll shift from managing behavior to co-regulation, building skills that last at home and school.
Inside you’ll discover how to:
Tailor regulation tools, scripts, and routines to each stage with age-specific examples and step-by-step strategies for preschoolers, school-age kids, and teens.
Use breathwork, body-based resets, and mindful pauses to stay steady during meltdowns (nervous system regulation, co-regulation tools).
Reframe ableism and bias with a strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming lens that protects dignity and self-esteem.
Navigate demand avoidance, power struggles, and “Now vs. Not Now” thinking with clear, compassionate scripts.
Understand and respond to Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD), practice repair after emotional storms, and rebuild trust.
Model calm planning, flexible routines, and connection so executive function and cooperation improve—without shame or perfection.
Use on its own or alongside Workbook 1. When you regulate, they learn to. When you grow, they thrive.
Series & values: Every book in From Chaos to Connection follows Coleia Brilliance’s core beliefs: All children are Brilliant, All parents can foster that brilliance, and disability reflects society’s limitations—not a child’s worth. These workbooks are judgment-free and shame-free, pairing evidence with lived experience so you can choose connection over control.
Perfect for: Parents and caregivers of ADHD kids (diagnosed or suspected) ages 3–18 who want a neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed playbook for co-regulation, calm scripts, and repair; also ideal for co-parents, educators, and therapists navigating demand avoidance, power struggles, meltdowns, or RSD—and for families ready to move beyond sticker charts to evidence-informed tools that build emotional regulation and executive function at home and school.
