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Monthly Archives: November 2011
My daughter thinks it’s funny to hurt other kids.
I have a three-year-old who just hit a four-year-old in the face with a jewelry box and laughed about it. Her babysitter put her in time out and told her how wrong it was but all she did was laugh … Continue reading
Is his potty training regression linked to the way his father treated him?
My girlfriend has a child from a previous relationship who is four-and-a-half-years-old. He was potty trained shortly before the age of two, at which time she got into a relationship with with her ex-boyfriend who was an abusive guy. After … Continue reading
Posted in Potty Training
Tagged abuse, alcohol, behaviour, drinking, emotional punishment, encouragement, natural consequence, patient, positive, potty training, punishment, reward, soiling
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When is the right time to give a child a cell phone?
Just curious for your opinion on the right age to give a child a cell phone? We’re letting our grade five walk home on her own after school a few times a week, and I’m considering it. I’m just concerned … Continue reading
Posted in Safety
Tagged cell phones, control, excessive, health risks, monitoring, plan, rules, safety, texting, tracking
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My eight-year-old daughter is often greedy, rude and hostile.
My eight-year-old daughter is often greedy, rude and hostile toward us and her younger sister. She complains constantly about what she doesn’t have, or about things that we have not done as a family (as in not having gone to … Continue reading
How do I talk to my five-year-old about death?
This past April my grandmother passed away. My son, who recently turned five, seemed to deal with the news okay, however for the past few weeks he has been talking a lot about death. He started to cry one night … Continue reading
Posted in Death
Tagged death, grief, honest, memory, memory book, National Institutes of Health, open, photographs, questions, The Nemours Hospital, websites
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My daughter is masturbating at school and to get herself to sleep.
My eight-year-old daughter is masturbating, when she is tired or right before she goes to bed. It happened before when she was five, at which time I talked to her about it. She stopped. And now I have noticed she … Continue reading
Posted in Sexuality
Tagged abuse, daily report, masturbating, masturbation, polite, private, public, reward, school, sexuality, sleep, social, social worker, teacher
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Are we causing problems for our daughter by raising her to be bilingual?
I speak French to my three-year-old daughter and my husband speaks English. She understands everything we ask her to do but her speech isn’t clear, I mostly understand what she says because I am home with her all day, but family … Continue reading
Posted in Development
Tagged advantage, age appropriate, bilingual, doctor, expressive language, french, opportunity, receptive language, second opinion, speech
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We suspect our teenage son of regularly smoking weed.
We suspect our 16-year-old son has been using weed on a regular basis. We have confronted him and told him we do not condone smoking weed and do not want it in our house. We have taken his cell phone … Continue reading
Posted in Drugs
Tagged ambition, confrontation, engage, marijuana, relationship, remorse, rules, teenager, weed
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