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Yelled at your ADHD child and feel awful? Learn the 5-step repair system that protects your child's self-esteem and actually strengthens your relationship.

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The explosion is over. The house is quiet. Your kid has disappeared into their room, and you're standing there with a pit in your stomach, replaying the look on their face and asking yourself the question no parenting book prepared you for: Am I ruining my kid?

Here's what you were never taught: the yelling isn't what damages the relationship. It's what happens—or doesn't happen—afterward.

In this episode, Apryl and Dr. Brian Bradford break down the neuroscience behind why your child can't "learn their lesson" during a blowup (spoiler: their thinking brain is literally offline), and walk you through the exact 5-step repair process that protects your child from developing a shame-based identity.

Because ADHD kids already hear thousands more corrections than their peers by elementary school. They don't need perfection from you. They need repair.

You'll learn:

• Why secure attachment is built through rupture AND repair—not by never messing up
• The brain science behind why consequences don't work when your child is dysregulated
• The 5-part repair system you can use tonight (with exact scripts)
• How to apologize without giving in on your boundaries
• The "do-over" technique for catching yourself before it escalates
• Why this one shift can change your child's internal story from "I'm bad" to "I'm learning"

If you've been carrying guilt about losing your temper, this episode will feel like someone finally handed you the missing manual.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• Free course: "3-Second Calm Reset" at raisingadhd.org/calm
• Previous episode: When ADHD Anger Turns Destructive: Why Punishment Makes It Worse (And What Actually Works)
• ADHD Alien comic