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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Planning and Prioritisation
Your child can't work out what to do first or how to plan a task
Steps
- Use a simple 'first, then, finally' board for any multi-part task
- Help them identify the ONE most important thing to do first
- Break projects into small steps written on separate cards or sticky notes
- Use a visual planner or wall calendar they can see daily
- Review the plan together each morning or evening
What you need
First/then board, sticky notes, visual planner
Why it works
ADHD brains struggle with executive function — the ability to evaluate, sequence, and prioritise tasks. Everything feels equally important or equally unimportant, which leads to paralysis. A first-then-finally board makes the sequence visible and the decision external rather than internal.
Age guidance
Works from age 6 onwards. Keep the system simple — no more than 3 items per day. Younger children need you to set priorities; older children can learn to set their own.
Real-world example
A parent wrote three sticky notes each morning: the most important thing, the second, and 'if there's time.' Their child, who'd been frozen by a mental list of 10 things, started completing all three most days. The simplicity was what made it work.
Troubleshooting
- If everything feels equally important, help them pick by asking 'What's due soonest?'
- Keep plans visible. Out of sight is out of mind for ADHD brains
- Avoid overloading the plan. 3 items maximum per day
