Bay Paediatrics

Bay Paediatrics New Zealand's award-winning children's clinic specialising in ADHD and ASD assessment, diagnosis, medication and care.

Giving extraordinary parents and incredible children the tools to thrive

Neurodiverse kids can be labelled ‘shy’, ‘anxious’, or (a personal bugbear of ours)… ‘lacking in confidence’ 🙄.But what ...
21/08/2026

Neurodiverse kids can be labelled ‘shy’, ‘anxious’, or (a personal bugbear of ours)… ‘lacking in confidence’ 🙄.

But what if it WASN’T insecurity at all?

What if it was Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)?

Swipe to discover the lesser-known signs of RSD ➡️.

Our Managing Director, Freddie Bennett, enjoyed talking to RNZ about EPIC Families LIVE, which is happening at Baycourt ...
13/08/2026

Our Managing Director, Freddie Bennett, enjoyed talking to RNZ about EPIC Families LIVE, which is happening at Baycourt in Tauranga this Sunday.

One of the things we talked about was how overwhelming the ADHD journey can feel for parents. There is so much information out there, but when you're in the middle of it, it can be incredibly hard to know where to start or what your family actually needs.

That was really the idea behind EPIC Families: What information do parents need? What support did they need? And how could we bring that together so no family has to struggle or feel alone?

This Sunday we'll have hundreds of families in one room who share many of the same questions, worries and hopes – alongside some brilliant people who can help provide practical advice and support.

Freddie also talked about something parents need to hear more often: you don't have to be a perfect parent. This is a bad moment…not a bad life.

Link to listen to the full interview is in the comments

There are still some tickets available for Sunday if you'd like to join us (link in bio)

13/08/2026

🧠EPIC FAMILIES 2026…THREE DAYS TO GO!🎉

The most EPIC event for neurodiverse families…

On Sunday 16th August, the award-winning gamechanger himself, ‘Barber’ Spence McNeil, will be taking to the stage alongside our other awesome speakers for New Zealand’s largest ever event for Extraordinary Parents & Incredible Children.

🧠 You Play A Part In The Story. No more waiting, no more wondering, no more questioning yourself and searching for answers. You a front row seat alongside the changemaking experts who are supporting real families every single day.

💡 500 families, just like yours. For ONE day ‘thinking differently’ is the norm, not the exception. No explaining. No backstories. No apologies. Nobody more wonderfully unique than you.

🎉 Big words & big actions. Having someone show you, live, in real time — with other parents nodding because they’ve been there too — is a DIFFERENT kind of learning. It’s the difference between knowing something and finally making it happen.

This is YOUR moment to be part of it.

Plus…there’s a bar 🍾

This will be an EPIC day for parents, professionals… AND children!

Hundreds of families have grabbed their tickets - only a handful remain.

Link in bio to discover more and secure your seat now.

No family gets left behind.

🧠EPIC FAMILIES 2026…FOUR DAYS TO GO!🎉The most EPIC event for neurodiverse families…On Sunday 16th August, leading New Ze...
12/08/2026

🧠EPIC FAMILIES 2026…FOUR DAYS TO GO!🎉

The most EPIC event for neurodiverse families…

On Sunday 16th August, leading New Zealand Occupational Therapist & Sensory Integration Practitioner, Elen Nathan (Elen) will be taking to the stage alongside our other awesome speakers for New Zealand’s largest ever event for Extraordinary Parents & Incredible Children.

🧠 No faff. No waffle. You’ll get techniques and insights you can use that same night. From soft play meltdowns to bedtime battles, Elen brings practical, trauma-sensitive strategies — not fluffy theory — straight from her clinical work with families just like yours.

💡 No more lonely Google guesswork. You’ll be in the room not only with the REAL experts, but also 500 other families who truly know how you feel and are 100% in your corner. We’re in this TOGETHER. FOREVER.

🎉 EPIC events need EPIC kids. This is going to be the most powerful, energetic, insightful and FUN event EVER for neurodiverse families in New Zealand.

This is YOUR moment to be part of it.

Plus…there’s a bar 🍾

This will be an EPIC day for parents, professionals… AND children!

Hundreds of families have grabbed their tickets and the rest are moving fast!

Link in bio to discover more and secure your seat now.

No family gets left behind.

10/08/2026

Apologies for the slightly non-clinical language of our director Freddie Bennett , but this is a messy message that needs to be heard by adults and children with ADHD.

This powerful EPIC Families podcast episode with Spencer McNeil is out now (link in bio).

Both Freddie and Spencer are taking to the stage at EPIC Families live THIS SUNDAY. Last few tickets remaining. Link also in bio!

🧠EPIC FAMILIES 2026…FIVE DAYS TO GO!🎉The most EPIC event for neurodiverse families…On Sunday 16th August, ‘Mum on a Miss...
10/08/2026

🧠EPIC FAMILIES 2026…FIVE DAYS TO GO!🎉

The most EPIC event for neurodiverse families…

On Sunday 16th August, ‘Mum on a Mission’ Lisa Cowan (Lisa Cowan )will be taking to the stage alongside our other awesome speakers for New Zealand’s largest ever event for Extraordinary Parents & Incredible Children.

You’re not alone in this. We’re putting you ‘in a room full of yous’: 500 families on exactly the same journey as you. Same challenges. Same feelings. Same questions.

Get real strategies, not theory. All thriller, no filler. Plus no blame, shame, guilt or judgement. And (whisper it)…. we’re going to have a damn good time along the way.

One day, lasting shift. For your family and your child: This is a chance to walk away seeing their differences as strengths, not struggles.

Plus…there’s a bar 🍾

This will be an EPIC day for parents, professionals… AND children!

Hundreds of families have grabbed their tickets and the rest are moving fast!

Link in bio to discover more and secure your seat now.

No family gets left behind.

🚨 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 🎙️How a broken child can change the world.At 15, Spencer McNeil tried to take his own life. He gre...
09/08/2026

🚨 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 🎙️

How a broken child can change the world.

At 15, Spencer McNeil tried to take his own life. He grew up in foster care, lost his stepdad at a young age, left school early, and was told by teachers he would never amount to anything. He believed every word.

Today he owns Barber Spence. He’s a mental health advocate changing lives. And at EPIC Families live, he will stand on a stage in front of 500 families and tell them something every parent of a neurodiverse child needs to hear.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

📖 Spencer’s extraordinary story: from a broken home and foster care to barbershop owner, mental health advocate, and keynote speaker

🎓 Why the things teachers said to him as a child became the things he believed about himself..and the moment he decided to stop believing them

❤️‍🩹 Why vulnerability is not weakness, and why the most powerful thing you can do is tell someone you’re not okay

💪 The concept of the broken man trying to heal broken men…and why you have to fill your own cup before you can fill anyone else’s

💤 What Spencer says to the parents lying awake at night wondering if they’re doing enough

🧠 Why the ADHD brain, channelled in the right direction, can genuinely take over the world

💬 The moment a friend saved Spencer’s life at 3am…and why reaching out is always the right move

This is one of the most powerful, raw, and life-affirming conversations we have ever had on the EPIC Families Podcast. If you are a parent who has ever worried that your child is too broken, too different, too lost…Spencer McNeil is the proof that they are not

LISTEN NOW - Link in bio!

🧠EPIC FAMILIES 2026…NINE DAYS TO GO!🎉The most EPIC event for neurodiverse families…On Sunday 16th August, Real Rad Food ...
07/08/2026

🧠EPIC FAMILIES 2026…NINE DAYS TO GO!🎉

The most EPIC event for neurodiverse families…

On Sunday 16th August, Real Rad Food Entrepreneur Sarah Gillum will be taking to the stage alongside our other awesome speakers for New Zealand’s largest ever event for Extraordinary Parents & Incredible Children.

Finally, you can replace the overwhelm with clarity, confidence and a plan.

You can get your most pressing questions answered live on stage by the Bay Paediatrics’ Neurodevelopmental doctors.

So THIS is the moment when we can all come together, stop surviving the neurodiversity puzzle and start THRIVING inside it

This will be an EPIC day for parents, professionals… AND children!

Hundreds of families have grabbed their tickets and the rest are moving fast!

Link in bio to discover more and secure your seat now.

No family gets left behind.

Bay Paediatrics will never shy away from saying what needs to be said.We understand that tickets for EPIC Families LIVE ...
07/08/2026

Bay Paediatrics will never shy away from saying what needs to be said.

We understand that tickets for EPIC Families LIVE carry a cost. We also understand that times are tougher than ever for Kiwi families right now.

EPIC Families always has been - and always will be - about purpose. Not profit.

So right now, we’ve reduced the prices on ALL tickets for EPIC Families.

No discount code. No hidden conditions. No sneaky little hoops to jump through. No exceptions.

All tickets. Cheaper. Bay Paediatrics is paying the difference.

Prices will remain lower until 4pm on Sunday. This gives anyone who is feeling the financial pinch a chance to jump on board without short-changing people who paid full price.

We care more about getting knowledge to parents than putting dollars in pockets.

Plus, if any family is facing severe financial hardship and they desperately want to come to this event. Then they can contact us and we will work out a solution.

This event is not about Bay Paediatrics.

It’s about YOU: the Extraordinary Parent with the Incredible Child.

Always has been. Always will be.

Always in your corner.

Link in bio for more info.

🎙️ New Podcast Episode! 🧠 What If School Was Built Around Your Child…Not the Other Way Around?Every neurodiverse family ...
06/08/2026

🎙️ New Podcast Episode! 🧠

What If School Was Built Around Your Child…Not the Other Way Around?

Every neurodiverse family knows the feeling: The phone calls from the teacher. The emails. The labels. The sense that your child is a square peg being forced into a very round hole. And the quiet, crushing belief that this is just how education works…and there are no other options.

Penelope Barton is here to tell you that’s a false assumption. And she’s built an entire academy to prove it.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

🏫 How Crimson Global Academy went from 20 students in 2020 to over 3,000 students studying across 70 countries — and why the timing of its launch was almost perfectly accidental.

🎓Why something as simple as a scratchy school uniform was genuinely life-changing for one of their students…and what that tells us about the education system.

🧠 Why bespoke minds need bespoke education…and how the Academy is rebuilding every aspect of school from the ground up.

❤️‍🩹The concept of “productive struggle” and why swooping in to save our kids from difficulty might actually be holding them back.

💡Why the options available to neurodiverse families are so much wider than most parents realise.

💻 The hybrid model that’s changing everything: Combining online learning with physical school days for the best of both worlds.

🎉 How education needs to be transformed.,,and why the incentive structures in our current system are fundamentally broken.

Penelope and her team will be at EPIC Families Live to share more about what they do - highly recommended!

🔗 Links to listen (and for EPIC Families LIVE tickets) in our bio. ⬆️ .

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