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My husband and I disagree about screen time for our three-year-old.
My husband and I have different views on how often to let our three-year-old daughter play with our smartphones and our tablet at home. We have downloaded a few apps on our phones and we regularly let her draw and … Continue reading
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Tagged activity, apps, attention, Canadian Pediatric Society, computer, conversation, critical thinking, engaged, interactive games, iPad, play, screen time, smartphone, social skills, tablet, TV, values, violence
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Is there anything I can do to help my sister escape her abusive relationship?
My sister is in an emotionally abusive relationship. He is also unfaithful. After she married him I slowly watched her cut all ties with her friends and then she started to cut ties with the family. She refuses to see … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, abusive relationship, divorce, email, emotion, family, friends, friendship, husband, marriage, sister, support, verbal abuse
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How can I help my daughter? She has attempted suicide twice in the last three years.
My daughter is 16 and has attempted suicide twice in the last three years by taking pills. Her biological father committed suicide when she was four months old and her brother was two. He had a mental illness and my … Continue reading
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Tagged confidence, counselling, danger, family doctor, genetic, medicine, mental illness, open mind, overdose, pills, psychiatry, relationship, strengths, suicide
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How can I help my daughter transition from children’s medication to pills?
My twelve-year-old daughter is getting too old to take children’s medication, but she finds it virtually impossible to swallow a pill. If she has a fever or prescription, we have a very difficult time getting her medication into her. How … Continue reading
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Tagged criticism, encouragement, frustration, learning, medication, non medicated, pharmacist, pills, practice, prescription, schedule, skill, success chart
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Do I need to leave the country to get a proper diagnosis for my daughter?
Our twelve-year-old daughter has spent the last ten months in devastating pain after a soccer injury. We have tried everything and nothing is helping. Finally we have had a so-called diagnosis of Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome. I am a Canadian … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Pain Society, burning, Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome, CRPS, dignosis, discoloration, disease, doctor, injury, medication, nerve injury, pain, pain clinic, pain specialist, physiotherapy, pschology, severe, temperature changes, treatment
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My grandson is showing signs of the behaviour that led to my son’s breakdown. What should I do?
My Son is now 24, when he was younger he walked in circles on the playground and had a lot of fears, but he was very smart. Teachers never said anything about these behaviours because he was so smart. But … Continue reading
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