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The Functional Family - Sharon Collon, ADHD Coach & Parenting Expert

PCC Credentialed ADHD Coach & Parenting Expert.

I help families reduce the chaos, ease the conflict, and enjoy each other again.

👉 Join 40,000+ families: facebook.com/groups/thefunctionalfamilygroup
👉 ADHD Family Quest : thefunctionalfamily.com/quest

28/09/2026

On Sunday 11 October, psychologist Jacquie Ward and I are spending three hours on sibling conflict in ADHD homes. We'll cover why the same fight keeps happening, and what to say in the first ten seconds while you're dysregulated too.

Who you'll be learning from:

Sharon Collon, ADHD coach. Founder of The Functional Family. PCC credentialled ADHD coach and parenting expert, ADDCA trained and ICF certified, with more than 40,000 families supported. Mum of three boys, in a house with ADHD, autism, tic disorder, ODD, OCD and SPD. I'm living this, not observing it from the outside.

Jacquie Ward, psychologist. Registered psychologist and mum to a neurodivergent child. She brings the clinical framework and the developmental science, and she'll tell you honestly when something needs more than a strategy.

Most parenting content gives you lived experience or clinical rigour. In this workshop you get both, answering the same question about your house.

It's for houses with one child diagnosed, houses where every child is diagnosed, and parents who recognise a fair bit of themselves in it.

✅ Sunday 11 October, 1 to 4pm AEDT
✅ Live Q&A in hour two
✅ Replay access for 6 months
✅ $197, usually $297
✅ Registration closes Saturday 10 October

Comment SIBLINGS for the link, or tap the link in bio.

27/09/2026

If sibling conflict is running your household, this one is for you. 🧡

The constant refereeing.
The scorekeeping.
The “but HE started it!”
The arguments that go from zero to explosive before you’ve even worked out what happened.

And perhaps the hardest part? Not knowing what to say in the moment that actually helps.

That’s why Jacquie and I are bringing back Managing Sibling Conflict & ADHD, and this time we’ve packed it with even more practical scripts to help you know what to say, what to do and how to respond when sibling conflict kicks off.

Less refereeing. More understanding. Better tools for the moments that keep happening in your home.

Comment SIBLINGS below and we’ll send you the details. 👇

27/09/2026

The one who reacts is the one who gets in trouble.

One kid pokes, hums, sits too close. The other explodes. Guess who ends up in their room.

The child being baited has no plan, so they react. Give them one:

"When you feel the annoyed feeling coming, your job is to walk away, or come find me. Do either one and you've handled it, no matter what your sibling does."

One of eight scripts Dr Jacquie Ward and I wrote. Free when you book Managing Sibling Conflict and ADHD before 10pm Wed 7 October. Valued at $197.

Comment SIBLINGS or link in bio.

26/09/2026

Sibling conflict doesn’t need another punishment. It needs a better playbook.

Because when everyone is fired up, that is not the moment to invent the perfect response.

You need language you can actually reach for. Strategies that make sense for the ADHD brain. And a plan for what happens before, during and after the blow-up.

That’s what we’re giving you inside Managing Sibling Conflict & ADHD.

📅 11 October
⏰ 1pm to 4pm AEDT

Three practical hours designed to help you feel more confident about what to do when sibling conflict takes over your home.

Comment SIBLINGS and we’ll send you the details. 🧡

25/09/2026

5pm. Someone's crying, someone's furious, and "who started it?" is already out of your mouth.

It's the question every parent asks. It's also the one that turns a two-minute fight into a twenty-minute trial.

Swipe for five things to say instead. Save it, so the words are ready before you need them.

There are dozens more in Managing Sibling Conflict & ADHD, live with psychologist Jacquie Ward and me.

🧡 Sunday 11 October, 1 to 4pm AEDT
🧡 Live Q&A in hour two
🧡 Replay access for 6 months
🧡 $197, usually $297
🧡 Registration closes Saturday 10 October

Comment SIBLINGS for the link, or tap the link in bio.

25/09/2026

Nobody wants to spend their evenings refereeing their children.

Yet somehow you end up right in the middle of it.

Trying to keep things fair. Trying not to take sides. Trying to know when to step in and when to let them sort it out.

And underneath all of that is often a much bigger worry:

How do I help my kids have a good relationship with each other?

That’s the piece we care about.

Not creating siblings who never argue, because that’s not real life.

But helping you create a family where conflict doesn’t dominate the relationship, everyone feels heard, and your kids are building the skills to navigate disagreements without needing you to manage every interaction.

That’s what we’re digging into in Managing Sibling Conflict & ADHD.

📅 11 October
⏰ 1pm to 4pm AEDT

Come away seeing the dynamics in your family differently and, importantly, knowing what to do with what you see.

Comment SIBLINGS and we’ll send you the details. 🧡

24/09/2026

For years I thought my job was to fix every feeling in my house.

Every meltdown. Every slammed door. Every "I can't find my shoes" at 8.25am.

I jumped into every cart on every rollercoaster, and all it did was leave me exhausted and snapping by 5pm.

These are the five things I stopped doing, and the three questions I ask myself now instead.

You can't control the chaos. You can choose where you stand.

Save this for the next time you feel yourself climbing into the cart. And send it to the mum who needs it today.

24/09/2026

My 3 boys with ADHD fought like it was a competitive sport, and I refereed every single round.

If you've broken up the same argument 3 times before school, you know it isn't about the Lego or the seat in the car.

Sibling conflict in an ADHD household isn't a behaviour problem waiting for a referee. It's what happens when several nervous systems run hot in the same house at once, and nobody in there has the skills yet to bring themselves back down. Refereeing settles this fight. It does nothing for the next one.

What changes the pattern is understanding what's driving it underneath, and giving everyone in the house something to do before it escalates.

That's exactly what Jacquie Ward and I are running in October. Jacquie's a psychologist, I'm an ADHD coach, and together we cover the conflict triggers, how to step in without making it bigger, and the communication skills to teach your kids so they can start handling it themselves.

3-hour live sessions, 1.00pm - 4.00pm on the 11th, October, plus 6 months of replay access. Normally $297, $197 for this round, or Afterpay from about $49 a fortnight.

Book by 11.59pm Sunday 4 October and the Baiting Scripts pack comes with it, for the times one of them starts it on purpose.

Three hours, right after the school holidays, which is usually when it has been at its worst.

Send this to the parent who's been refereeing since breakfast.

Comment SIBLINGS for the dates, or the link's in my bio.

23/09/2026

The same ADHD strategy that worked on Monday can fall apart by Tuesday. That's not the strategy failing.

You've got the visual timer, the checklist, the script you practised. Some days they land. Other days you may as well be speaking another language. Here's what's underneath it.

Every strategy you've been given is a thinking tool, and it needs a working brain on the other end to pick it up. Thinking goes offline the second a nervous system is overwhelmed. Not reduced. Offline. You can't hand someone a map while they're underwater.

Get them to the surface first, and the map has somewhere to land. Calm the body. Connect with the person. Then reach for the tool. That order, every time.

Save this for the next hard afternoon. That's when you'll need it, and that's exactly when it's hardest to remember.

This order is the thing everything else in the ADHD Family Quest sits on.

Comment GO and I'll show you what the rest of it looks like.

22/09/2026

Sibling conflict in ADHD families is a different problem to two kids squabbling, and it needs different words.

Who started it.

It's the first question out of every parent's mouth and it's the one that makes the next ten minutes harder.

You walk in. Both of them are talking over the top of each other. One is crying, one is furious, and you have about four seconds to work out what happened. So you separate them. You pick a side. And on Thursday the same fight happens again.

Here is what makes it different in our houses.

At the park, if a kid kept coming after yours, you would just go home. Siblings can't. They already live with the person winding them up, and they know exactly which button works fastest.

On Sunday 11 October, psychologist Jacquie Ward and I are running three hours on exactly this.

You will walk out with the words. Your first line for when you walk in on them. What to do when you physically cannot separate them. What to say when one of them is clearly in the wrong and the other one is watching to see whether you will say so.

1pm to 4pm AEDT. Live Q and A on your two. Replay yours for 6 months.

$297, running at $197.

Swipe for the full run sheet. Link in bio to join us.

Address

PO Box 362
Sydney, NSW
1499

Website

http://www.thefunctionalfamily.com/, https://www.thefunctionalfamily.com/podcast, https://www.instagram.com/thefunctiona

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