Chaos & Caffeine: After Dark

Ever feel like you're doing all the work—therapy, books, nervous system healing, ADHD strategies—and you STILL lose your patience with your kids? Same. In this Patreon After Dark episode, I'm getting brutally honest about something I don't think we talk about enough: I've been doing self-work for six years... and I still lose my shit. More often than not, it's the few days before my period, when m...

After 13 episodes with leading experts on ADHD, screen time, social media, executive functioning, and raising kids in a digital world, this is the biggest takeaway of the entire series. Not another lecture about limiting screens. Not another conversation about taking away devices. A practical system that helps ADHD families reduce screen time battles, teach responsibility, and create calmer aftern...

Did you lose your cool this week? Did bedtime turn into a battle? Did you raise your voice, walk away feeling guilty, and immediately start wondering if you're failing your child? Friend, this episode is for you. After my conversation with ADHD coach Jenna Free, I found myself thinking less about fixing my child and more about understanding what is happening inside my own nervous system. In this r...

Listen to Chris' full 👉 https://linktr.ee/chaosandcaffeinepodcast I thought I had screens figured out. Google Family Link? Check. Restrictions? Check. YouTube monitored? Check. Then I sat down with digital safety expert Chris McKenna from Protect Young Eyes and realized I may have been asking the wrong questions all along. In this honest After Dark episode, I'm unpacking one of the biggest surpri...

After recording my episode with Dr. Randy Kulman, I realized something that honestly hit me harder than I expected: I think many of us ADHD parents have become so afraid of screens… that we’ve accidentally forgotten what real play, boredom, creativity, and independence are supposed to look like. In this raw Patreon after-dark episode, I unpack the biggest mindset shifts I took away from our conver...

After my conversation with Dr. Jenny Radesky, I couldn’t stop thinking about one thing: What if the goal isn’t controlling every screen… but teaching our ADHD kids how to handle them safely, responsibly, and without screens becoming their entire source of dopamine? Because whew. This one got personal. In this unfiltered Chaos & Caffeine After Dark episode, I’m diving into: why ADHD kids are ba...

https://linktr.ee/chaosandcaffeinepodcast Ever sit down to “check one thing” on your phone… and suddenly it’s two hours later, your nervous system feels fried, and you somehow know intimate details about a stranger’s pantry organization routine? Yeah. Same. In this raw, unfiltered After Dark episode of Chaos & Caffeine , I’m unpacking one of the biggest mindset shifts I had after my conversati...

What happens when your ADHD child notices screen addiction before the adults do? In this raw and emotional Chaos & Caffeine After Dark episode, Danielle opens up about a heartbreaking moment at the park when her son realized his friend no longer enjoyed outdoor play because all he wanted was video games. What started as a normal afternoon turned into a powerful conversation about dopamine, ADH...

Let’s talk about the part of screen time no one is saying out loud… After my conversation with Dr. Jane Shawcroft , I realized something that honestly made me equal parts relieved and furious: We’ve been sold a lie. Tech companies make screen safety settings so complicated, buried, and time-consuming that most parents will never fully implement them… and then turn around and tell us, “It’s in your...

This one is real. After my conversation with Dr. Jody Carrington , I couldn’t just move on. Because what she said about not being everything to our kids? It stayed with me. So this is the After Dark version—what this actually looks like in my ADHD household. We’re talking about: Why ADHD kids don’t just use screens—they rely on them to regulate The uncomfortable truth about building a “village” (a...

If you’re in the middle of daily screen time battles with your ADHD kid… this one is for you. After interviewing experts, testing strategies in real life, and—let’s be honest—failing more times than I can count, I’m sharing what I’ve actually learned so far from the Chaos & Caffeine Screens Campaign. We’re talking about the uncomfortable truth behind screens and ADHD: why screens aren’t the en...

This is the unfiltered version. The one where I tell you what actually happened in my house after recording the ScreenCoach episode… and why I had to admit something I didn’t want to say out loud: My son and I are both addicted to screens. Not “using them a little too much.” Not “working on better habits.” Addicted. In this After Dark episode, I’m walking you through what screen time really looks...

If you listened to my conversation with Michelle Garcia Winner from Social Thinking and thought, “Okay yes… but what does this actually look like in a real house with a real kid?” This is that episode. Because here’s the part nobody tells you about ADHD parenting and social skills— you can understand the strategy, agree with the expert, and still completely spiral when it’s time to actually apply...

For the past year, I’ve had a weird front-row seat to some of the world’s leading ADHD experts. Psychologists. Researchers. Clinicians. Educators. People who have spent decades studying neurodivergent brains. And somehow, through a strange combination of curiosity and caffeine, I get to sit across from them and ask the questions every exhausted parent wants answered. Which means I basically get pa...