This page gathers the notes, letters and small reports that came back after people tried the routines at home, in classrooms and at kitchen tables. Nothing here is dressed up as a headline number. It is the ordinary evidence that a checklist on the fridge, a timer on the counter or a short audio clip on a hard afternoon actually held up when it mattered.
Nothing on this site was invented in an office. The checklists, timers and homework scripts came out of kitchens, staffrooms and clinic waiting rooms, and the people below let us sit in, ask questions and write it down. These are the organisations and practitioners who worked with Granny Suz on the material you read here.
Riverside Primary Learning Support
Two terms of classroom trials with the printed morning routine cards. Teachers logged which steps kids actually used without being reminded, and the card layout was redrawn twice because of it.
Dr Naledi Mokoena, Educational Psychologist
Reviewed the conversation starters for parent-teacher meetings and the reduced-load request template, so the wording stays factual and does not put a child in a corner.
Kalk Bay Occupational Therapy Rooms
Walked us through fidget and sensory tool choices, including which ones hold up in a school bag and which ones quietly become a distraction instead of a help.
Somerset West Parent Circle
A fortnightly group of about twenty parents who read early drafts of the wind-down checklist and told us plainly which parts were too long to finish on a bad evening.
Highveld Adult ADHD Peer Group
Tested the body-doubling format and the single-cue dinner alarm over eight weeks, and reported back on what survived past the first enthusiastic week.
Granny Suz Audio Contributors
Four volunteers recorded the short clips for rough afternoons. Their voices are unedited on purpose, recorded at home, with the background noise left in.
We do not publish partner numbers, download counts or outcome percentages, because we cannot verify them and would rather say less. If you want to know how a specific tool was trialled, write to us and we will tell you who tested it and what they said.
These are notes from people who tried one routine at a time and kept what worked. No before-and-after numbers, no overnight turnarounds. Just the small adjustments that held up on a Tuesday morning when nobody had slept well.
Morning routine
We put the fridge checklist up on a Sunday and stopped repeating myself forty times before school. My son still forgets his lunch some days, but he gets his shoes on without me standing over him. That alone changed the mood in the car.
Nadia, parent of a 9-year-old, Pretoria
Homework
Body doubling sounded too simple to bother with. Now I fold washing at the same table while she does maths, and the standoff mostly disappears. One subject at a time, timer on the counter, done by six.
Thandi, parent of an 11-year-old, Durban
Evenings
I used to lose whole evenings without noticing. The wind-down card is short enough that I actually finish it, and the alarm labelled with the next action instead of the time made a real difference. Still messy, but I get to bed earlier.
Ruan, adult with ADHD, Cape Town
School conversations
The conversation starters helped me write an email to my daughter's teacher without sounding like I was making excuses. We agreed on a reduced load for two subjects and a quiet place to finish what was left.
Lerato, parent of a 13-year-old, Johannesburg
Sensory tools
We tried three fidget options before finding one that didn't end up thrown across the room. The short audio clip for rough afternoons is now part of our routine. It gives everyone ten minutes to reset before we talk about anything.
Megan, parent of two, Gqeberha
Kitchen table
Clearing one corner of the table and keeping only what we needed there cut down the noise in my head. It sounds small. It is small. But it is the first system I have kept going for more than a month.
Pieter, adult with ADHD, Bloemfontein
References here are not a wall of praise. They are the paper trail: who wrote the routine cards, which teachers and occupational therapists read them before they went out, and what changed at home after a family tried them for a fortnight. If something did not work, that stays in too.
Every checklist starts as a scribble on a kitchen counter in South Africa, tested through school runs, homework standoffs and 22:40 evenings that got away. What survives a real week is what gets published.
Teachers, an occupational therapist and two ADHD coaches read the routine cards and conversation starters before release. Their notes on wording, timing and sensory load are kept alongside each version.
When a wind-down checklist proved too long for younger kids, it was cut and the change noted. No quiet edits, no inflated numbers, no claims about outcomes we cannot show you.
Drafted at the table
One habit at a time, written the way you would say it out loud, then printed and stuck on the fridge.
Tried by three households
Different ages, different kitchens. If two of the three drop it inside a week, it goes back to the drawing board.
Checked for sensory load
Timers, textures and audio clips are reviewed for kids who find noise or touch difficult, not just for the average case.
Kept or cut, with a reason
Each card carries a short note on why it stayed, what was removed, and which part families usually change first.
If you want to see the material behind these notes, the routine pack and focus tools live under Offerings, and anything unclear can be raised through Contact.