What Kids with ADHD Actually Need at School (And Why Most Environments Get It Wrong) with Antoinette Elliott

If your child has ADHD, you have probably wrestled with whether the school they're in is actually built for them. Antoinette Elliott has spent over 20 years in childcare, and her answer is a practical one: most aren't, but they don't have to be.

Antoinette is the founder of All Our Children Elite Childcare Academy in Georgia, a nature-based, extended-hour childcare program that intentionally includes children with ADHD, autism, and other learning differences alongside their peers. Every staff member completes crisis prevention training. Every meal is vegetarian. Every child is treated like they belong.

In this episode:

• The quick win: if your ADHD child's sleep is delayed at night, protect their morning -- a later start time produced fewer discipline issues all summer
• Why inclusive classrooms benefit every child, not just the ones with diagnoses
• How outdoor environments level the playing field for neurodivergent kids in ways a classroom never can
• What crisis prevention training teaches that most schools are simply not doing
• Why the vegetarian meal plan works even for the pickiest eaters -- and what social modeling has to do with it
• The story of a mom in her late twenties who discovered her own ADHD after her children were evaluated -- and why it is still happening to so many women

Antoinette's message is simple: you did it the hard way. Now there are resources. Your child does not have to do it the hard way too.

Find Antoinette at aocelitechildcare.com and on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook at All Our Children.