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Two Households. One Child with ADHD. Let's Get Everyone on the Same Page.
For divorced and co-parenting families navigating ADHD — a structured, evidence-informed coaching engagement that builds consistency across both homes, reduces friction at transitions, and gives each parent a framework that works in real time.
Two Good Homes. One Confused Kid.
ADHD is hard enough in one home. Across two — with different routines, different rhythms, and different ways of responding to the hard moments — it gets complicated fast. Not because anyone is doing anything wrong. Just because two households naturally develop their own styles, and a child with ADHD feels every gap between them.
Research is consistent on this: children with ADHD benefit significantly from environmental consistency, predictable transitions, and adults who respond to dysregulation with co-regulation rather than escalation. When two households are operating from different frameworks, even well-intentioned parenting can inadvertently increase a child's cognitive and emotional load.
This work is designed to close that gap — practically, collaboratively, and without assigning blame.
Is this You?
You're each doing your best in your own home. Two good homes with two different styles is completely normal. For a child with ADHD, it's also genuinely confusing — and that confusion has a real cost.
This work builds a shared language across both households — not identical rules, just enough common ground that your child isn't starting from scratch every Sunday night.
That's achievable. And it makes a bigger difference than most families expect.
This is right for your family if your child has an ADHD diagnosis — or you strongly suspect it — and you're parenting across two homes. You know consistency matters. You know that a little more common ground between households would make a real difference for your child.
You're not alone in that. Most co-parents navigating ADHD feel exactly this way. They just don't know where to start.
The Co-Parenting Blueprint
Three hours. Structured around what actually matters.
Hour 1 — Both Parents Together A shared foundation. Dan reviews whatever documentation exists — neuropsychological evaluation, school reports, your intake — before you meet. The hour goes straight to what matters: a grounded understanding of how ADHD shows up in this child specifically, why the current dynamic is playing out the way it is, and what both households need to know to move in the same direction.
Hour 2 — Each Parent Separately (30 minutes each) Your home, your patterns, honest conversation without an audience. This is where each parent receives specific, individualized coaching on their own responses in the hard moments — and where the real shifts begin.
Within 72 Hours
A written Co-Parenting Blueprint — a shared framework for both homes covering transitions, homework, mornings, escalations, and the moments that tend to go sideways. Each parent also receives their own individual next steps.
The Co-Parenting Blueprint · $1,297
Two sessions. One document. Everything you need to move in the same direction.
Written shared framework · individual next steps for each parent · delivered within 48 hours
For families navigating the complexity and cost of divorce, this is one of the highest-return investments you can make for your child.
For Referring Professionals
If you're a psychologist, family therapist, or mediator working with a family navigating ADHD across two households — this engagement is designed to complement, not replace, the therapeutic work already underway.
Dan works from a coaching and educational therapy framework, grounded in the PAUSE People System and Peg Dawson's executive function research. He does not provide therapy or psychological services. What he provides is a structured, practical framework for both households — one that translates clinical findings into daily life, supports consistent implementation of accommodations and strategies, and reduces the friction points that most often surface at home and at school.
Referrals are welcome. Dan is glad to coordinate with treating clinicians where appropriate and with family consent.
Why Dan — and Why This Is Personal
Dan Leibowitz, M.Ed., M.S.Sped., C.E.T. is a credentialed teacher, certified educational therapist, and co-creator of the PAUSE People System — with three decades supporting students with ADHD, learning differences, and executive function challenges, and the families raising them.
He's also a divorced dad who has parented between two homes. He knows what Sunday night transitions feel like. He knows what it's like to want more consistency for your kid and not be sure how to build it across two different households. He's been on every side of this — as an educator, a coach, and a parent.
That's not a small thing. It's why this work exists — and why it's different from anything else you'll find.