Saturday Parent Sessions

Every night the same fight. The homework is not that hard. Your child is not that busy. And yet the homework does not get done without a battle. If this is your house, this session is for you.

Ms. Merriweather walks through what is actually happening in the brain of a child with ADHD when a homework request lands, why the most common parent strategies backfire, and what actually works. The session covers the neuroscience in plain English, the behavioral patterns that show up at the homework table, and one concrete framework you can start using the same night.

This session is for parents. It is not a diagnosis session and it is not therapy. It is practical knowledge delivered by an educator with over 20 years of experience working with ADHD learners in classrooms and one on one.

Your child comes home with a math worksheet and nothing on it looks like math. You were taught to stack the numbers and carry the one. Your child is drawing arrays and partial products and number lines and their teacher marked your way wrong. This session explains why, and gives you the vocabulary to actually help.

Ms. Merriweather breaks down the major shifts in how elementary math is taught today, where those shifts came from, and what they look like in practice. This is not an endorsement of any one method. It is a translation so that when your child says "the teacher says we have to use the area model," you know what that means and you can help instead of guess.

If you have ever said "just do it the normal way" to your elementary scholar, this session is for you.

You read your child's writing. It is not good. You want to help. You make corrections. Your child shuts down, resents the paper, or hands you a blank page next time. Or you leave it alone and the writing stays exactly the same. Neither option is working.

This session is about the middle path: how to give feedback that builds a writer instead of building resistance. Ms. Merriweather covers the difference between how schools teach writing today versus how most parents learned it, and what that means for how you read and respond to your child's work at home.

This session is practical and direct. It is for parents who want their children to become better writers, not just parents who want a better paper turned in tomorrow.