Morning routines
Mornings That Don't Fall Apart
The first twenty minutes decide the rest of the school run. This one starts the night before and keeps the fridge checklist to a single sheet.
Read the morning routineThis page is for the members who carry the school run, the homework table, the grocery list and their own unfinished workday in the same head. You will find the routines we actually use at home, the ones that survive a bad night's sleep and a child who has lost a shoe again. Nothing here asks you to become more organised than the week allows. Pick one habit, keep it for seven days, and let the rest wait.
Before you join, a few plain clarifications. Members pages tend to attract assumptions, so here is what we actually mean by the words we use, and where the edges of this support sit.
Nothing on this page or in the member area replaces an assessment by a qualified clinician. We share routines, tools and lived experience. If you are waiting for a diagnosis or weighing up medication, that conversation belongs with your doctor or psychiatrist.
Members are parents, partners and adults with ADHD who want the printable routine cards, the wind-down checklists and the short audio clips in one place. It is not a clinical programme, a therapy group or a moderated crisis line.
When we say morning routine, we mean three or four steps that survive a bad night's sleep, not a colour-coded schedule. If a plan needs more than one reminder on the fridge, we have probably overbuilt it, and you are free to cut it down.
We write from South Africa, so school terms, homework loads and the cost of sensory tools reflect what families here actually deal with. Members elsewhere are welcome, but some school-related advice will need translating to your own system.
Routine cards and checklists are designed for a home printer on plain A4. Laminate them or stick them to a cupboard door. They are for your household, not for resale or for reposting as your own resource.
If something in the member area is unclear, or a printable will not open, write to us at info@adhdwithgranniesuz.com or call +27(44)1106765. We answer between other things, so give it a day or two.
One last thing. Progress with ADHD is rarely linear, and a week where nothing sticks is not a failed membership. Pick one habit, keep it small, and let the rest wait.
Members tend to arrive with one specific problem and stay for the smaller habits around it. These three reads cover the questions we hear most often: mornings that start badly, homework that turns into a standoff, and evenings that quietly disappear. Each one is written for a household, not a spreadsheet.
Morning routines
The first twenty minutes decide the rest of the school run. This one starts the night before and keeps the fridge checklist to a single sheet.
Read the morning routineHomework
Body doubling at the kitchen table, a visible timer, and one subject at a time. Also covers how to ask a teacher for a reduced load in writing.
Read the homework guideEvenings
For the 22:40 moment when the evening has gone missing. One audible cue, a short wind-down list, and alarms labelled with the next action.
Read the evening pieceMembers usually pick one of these for the week and leave the other two for later. That is the intended pace.