Nov 2026 BBB (1).png
Nov 2026 BBB (1).png

BBB® Webinar: “I’ll Do It Later!” Why Kids with ADHD Procrastinate - Understanding Anxiety, Avoidance and the Struggle to Get Started

$34.99

Does your tween or teen wait until the last possible minute to start homework? Avoid projects that feel overwhelming? Say “I’ll do it later” about something that could take only a few minutes? Or become frustrated, anxious, or shut down when you try to help them get started?

For kids with ADHD, procrastination is rarely as simple as not caring or being lazy. Executive functioning challenges can make it difficult to initiate tasks, estimate time, organize steps, and sustain effort. And sometimes, procrastination is a form of anxiety.

When a task feels overwhelming, confusing, boring, or loaded with the possibility of making a mistake, avoiding it can provide temporary relief. Unfortunately, that relief can reinforce avoidance and create a cycle of procrastination, mounting pressure, conflict, and last-minute panic.

In this practical and compassionate BBB® Webinar, Dr. Sharon helps parents understand what is actually happening when tweens and teens with ADHD procrastinate and how to respond in ways that encourage action instead of increasing shame or conflict.

You’ll learn research-informed strategies for reducing overwhelm, addressing anxiety, strengthening task initiation, and helping your child develop tools for getting started and following through.

When: Thursday, November 5, 2026
Time: 7:00 – 8:15 PM ET
Target Audience: Parents and caregivers of tweens and teens with ADHD who struggle with procrastination, anxiety, task initiation, avoidance, and follow-through.

Does your tween or teen wait until the last possible minute to start homework? Avoid projects that feel overwhelming? Say “I’ll do it later” about something that could take only a few minutes? Or become frustrated, anxious, or shut down when you try to help them get started?

For kids with ADHD, procrastination is rarely as simple as not caring or being lazy. Executive functioning challenges can make it difficult to initiate tasks, estimate time, organize steps, and sustain effort. And sometimes, procrastination is a form of anxiety.

When a task feels overwhelming, confusing, boring, or loaded with the possibility of making a mistake, avoiding it can provide temporary relief. Unfortunately, that relief can reinforce avoidance and create a cycle of procrastination, mounting pressure, conflict, and last-minute panic.

In this practical and compassionate BBB® Webinar, Dr. Sharon helps parents understand what is actually happening when tweens and teens with ADHD procrastinate and how to respond in ways that encourage action instead of increasing shame or conflict.

You’ll learn research-informed strategies for reducing overwhelm, addressing anxiety, strengthening task initiation, and helping your child develop tools for getting started and following through.

When: Thursday, November 5, 2026
Time: 7:00 – 8:15 PM ET
Target Audience: Parents and caregivers of tweens and teens with ADHD who struggle with procrastination, anxiety, task initiation, avoidance, and follow-through.

What if procrastination isn’t about motivation?

Your tween knows the assignment is due tomorrow. You’ve reminded them. They’ve told you they’re going to do it. And yet, hours pass without anything happening.

Then suddenly it’s late, everyone is stressed, and the task that could have been handled earlier has become an emergency.

Sound familiar?

For parents of kids with ADHD, procrastination can be incredibly frustrating, especially when your child seems perfectly capable of spending hours focused on something they enjoy but struggles to begin a relatively simple responsibility.

But procrastination isn’t always a choice to “just not do it.”

ADHD can affect task initiation, time awareness, planning, organization, emotional regulation, and the ability to sustain attention when something isn’t naturally engaging. Anxiety can add another powerful layer.

A child who worries about doing something incorrectly, disappointing someone, becoming overwhelmed, or not knowing where to begin may avoid the task because avoidance temporarily reduces their anxiety.

The problem is that temporary relief can strengthen the procrastination cycle.

In this BBB® Webinar, Dr. Sharon explores the connection between ADHD, anxiety, executive functioning, and procrastination and helps parents understand what may be happening underneath their child’s avoidance.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience and current research on ADHD, anxiety, and executive functioning, she will share practical tools to help you:

  • Understand why ADHD brains can struggle to activate for certain tasks

  • Recognize when procrastination may actually be connected to anxiety or overwhelm

  • Identify the executive functioning challenges behind “I’ll do it later”

  • Reduce power struggles, repeated reminders, and parent-child conflict

  • Break intimidating tasks into more approachable starting points

  • Help your child create momentum without relying on last-minute panic

  • Build your tween or teen’s independence, confidence, and ability to follow through

Through relatable examples, practical exercises, and compassionate guidance, you’ll learn how to shift the conversation from “Why won’t you just do it?” to “What’s getting in the way of getting started?”

Because helping kids overcome procrastination isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about understanding what is fueling the avoidance and giving them tools to move through it.

NOTE: No refunds are available. This is a live webinar taking place Thursday, November 5, from 7:00–8:15 PM ET.