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Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids

by Jessica Shaw, Understood.org

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  • My son was scared of food

    October 1, 2026 · 20 min

    Tehrima Rai spent years being told her son was “just picky.” Relatives blamed her parenting, and she struggled to get help. But Tehrima, a pediatrician herself, trusted her instincts and kept searching until she found the real answer…

  • I disciplined my ADHD daughter all wrong. This saved our relationship.

    September 17, 2026 · 22 min

    Psychotherapist and ADHD expert Merriam Saunders spent years locked in daily battles with her strong-willed daughter. No form of discipline worked. Then one ordinary blowup led to an unexpected realization: The problem wasn’t defiance, it…

  • School refusal: Strategies for getting your child back in the building

    September 3, 2026 · 33 min

    Jessica is off this week, but we didn’t want to leave you without something great to listen to. So, in honor of back-to-school, we’re sharing an episode about school refusal from another Understood podcast, called In It. Why do kids…

  • Why I stopped hiding my kid’s neurodivergence

    August 20, 2026 · 26 min

    For years, Margaret Ables believed the kindest thing she could do for her autistic child was to help them blend in. Then a single article reframed everything she thought she knew about acceptance and disclosure, and what her kid actually…

  • Guiding a neurodivergent kid through grief (by breaking all the rules)

    August 6, 2026 · 25 min

    Alynda Wheat Savage and her husband Dave were never big rule followers. They brought that punk rock spirit to parenting their son, Jack, who is neurodivergent. So when Dave was diagnosed with glioblastoma, they threw out the rulebook to…

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  • No dyslexia tutors, so this mom became one

    July 21, 2026 · 20 min

    Melena Blanton is a clinical psychologist and mom of two neurodivergent kids in Eastern Kentucky. She’s had to fight through lack of resources and small town prejudice to get her kids the help they need. That’s meant driving hours for…

  • Hyperfocus: PMDD: Why women with ADHD are 4x more likely to struggle

    July 7, 2026 · 21 min

    In this episode of our sister show Hyperfocus, listener Jenna Plonsky opens a raw conversation about ADHD, late diagnosis, and the mental health struggles many women face in silence.  From postpartum depression to PMDD, this episode…

  • How neurodivergent kids helped build a better children’s museum

    June 23, 2026 · 21 min

    Rainy Saturdays just got a whole lot better. Leslie Bushara, chief program officer of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, reveals how she’s taking notes from neurodivergent kids and their parents to build a space that’s welcoming to every…

  • First-gen parents, neurodivergent kids, and redefining excellence

    June 9, 2026 · 17 min

    Alison Cho grew up in a tight-knit Korean American family where Harvard and medical school weren’t just dreams, they were expectations. Alison had undiagnosed ADHD and autism, and she often felt like she was letting her parents down. Now…

  • We didn’t know we had ADHD. Then motherhood hit.

    May 26, 2026 · 25 min

    Two experts in ADHD went decades without realizing they had it themselves. Katie Severson, a speech pathologist, and Lori Long, a child psychologist, co-run The Childhood Collective and host the Shining With ADHD podcast. But both received…

  • I’m an ADHD expert. My kid still can’t get help.

    May 12, 2026 · 23 min

    Rae Jacobson has spent her career covering ADHD and neurodivergence. She hosts the Hyperfocus podcast and helps lead Understood’s editorial team. But even with all that knowledge, she still can’t get the school to evaluate her daughter for…

  • The hidden grief of parenting a neurodivergent kid

    April 28, 2026 · 19 min

    Brittney Crabtree, mom of four and co-host of the Moms Talk Autism podcast, gets refreshingly honest about what she calls “grieving the gap.” That’s the particular sadness of watching your neurodivergent kid fall behind their peers. She…

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About the show

Journalist and radio host Jessica Shaw is swapping celebrity interviews for a whole new beat: parenting kids who learn and think differently. As a mom of two, she knows the chaos, victories, and everyday struggles that come with the territory. Everyone Gets a Juice Box is a space for parents to laugh, vent, celebrate wins, and tackle the messy realities of neurodiverse parenting. We share the tea, the struggles, and, of course…the juice.