The Support App for Parents of Children with ADHD or Autism
Thriive helps children grow up feeling understood, not broken.
Everyday support for families navigating ADHD, autism, and other neurodivergent profiles. Track the patterns, find strategies that actually fit, and feel one step ahead on the hard days.
What changes for parents of neurodivergent children
Without Thriive
- Growing up believing they're broken
- Falling behind and never understanding why
- Slipping through the cracks of a system not built for them
- Families feeling helpless watching it happen
With Thriive
- A child who understands how their brain works
- Parents who can advocate with confidence
- Strategies that actually fit, not generic advice
- A family that feels like a team
How Thriive supports parents of children with ADHD and autism
- Pattern Tracker: Log a tough moment in 30 seconds. Thriive surfaces the patterns behind ADHD and autism behaviours, so you can spot the triggers and respond earlier.
- Strategy Library: Real strategies for ADHD and autism, matched to your child's profile. Not generic advice.
- Visual Routine Builder: Step-by-step routines for the moments that usually go sideways. Mornings, bedtime, homework.
- Daily Check-ins: A 30-second mood check that builds a picture of how your child is really doing over time.
- Shareable Reports: Take real evidence to your GP, school, or therapist when it matters.
- The Hive: A community of parents who actually get it.
How Thriive helps parents, and how it helps their children
For parents
Understand your child like never before. Advocate with confidence. Stop feeling like you're figuring it out alone.
For children
Feel seen. Understand how your own brain works. Build a profile that's yours.
Neurodivergent conditions Thriive supports
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Hygiene Resistance
Your child refuses to brush teeth, wash hair, shower, or allow personal hygiene care
Steps
- Identify the specific sensory issue: is it the water temperature, the feel of the toothbrush, the smell of soap?
- Switch to sensory-friendly products: unflavoured toothpaste, unscented soap, soft washcloths
- Use a visual schedule for hygiene steps so it's predictable
- Offer choices: 'Bath or shower?', 'This toothbrush or that one?'
- Build up gradually. A quick wipe is better than a full battle over a bath
What you need
Sensory-friendly hygiene products, visual schedule, patience
Why it works
Hygiene resistance in sensory-processing and autistic children is almost always about genuine sensory discomfort, not defiance. Water temperature, toothpaste flavour, and soap texture can be genuinely painful for a sensitised nervous system. Switching products and giving control reduces the sensory assault.
Age guidance
Common from age 2 onwards. Sensory-friendly product swaps are effective at any age. Older children benefit from choosing their own products.
Real-world example
A parent switched from mint toothpaste to unflavoured and from a standard toothbrush to a silicone finger brush. Their child went from screaming through every tooth-brushing session to cooperating without tears within a week. The product was the problem, not the child.
Troubleshooting
- Electric toothbrushes help some children but make it worse for others. Try both
- Hair washing is often the hardest. A dry shampoo or visor to keep water off the face can help
- If teeth brushing is impossible, dental wipes exist as an interim solution
