my boy is at school now and his teacher told me he worries too much! I've always been aware of this as he won't do things on his own ie: go upstairs to the loo, go to sleep ( although we bought him a fantastic slide bed for his birthday and I'm now in my bedroom as h...
Hi! Just wanted to look for some advice or suggestions in regards to my son's recent changes in his behaviour. My wife had recently left our home to move on as she had put it and left the children under my care. At first, I had told both my 6 year old son and 4 year...
having tried to encourage table manners from little, i am now having problems with my 12 year old son. we do try to eat as a family at least 5 -6 times a week and it is turning into a battlefield. he will eat everything on his plate, but in about 5 minutes flat witho...
my daughter is 3 years old and is refusing to go a number two. she tells me that she's scared and holds it in for days at a time. i've tried laxatives and herbal remedies but she still refuses and sometimes it's a week before she relieves herself please help!!!!
I have a 4 year old daughter - bright, articulate, sociable, fun, loving, confident in many situations, but has problems when leaving me in larger settings e.g. school,nursery, and now swimming class. Once she has gone "through the door", she cracks on and copes ver...
Sorry, that head line seems to look like Im beating her. Well far from it, just like every thing else if you give it a good name more people will open it or take a look. And to me this is the most important part of my life! So you are not getting a storm, you are get...
I'm 42 years old & my son 25 months old he slleeps easy arround 08:30 -09:00p.m.. (He eats his supper arround 06:30-07:00 pm & drinks his milk at 08:30 he sleeps easy.) The problem is that between 12:30-3 am he wake up crying asking for his mam & he wants to hold hi...
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Jack and Declan are dear boys, but if everything isn't 'just so', I get immediate tantrums that last 10 minutes to an hour. Exhausting! I've tried talking to them, taking things away, rewarding good behaviour, shouting at them; nothing w...
Hi all, we have a 10 year old boy, great kid. but we are seeing a lot of his friends being allowed out round the local park, well away from their home area....should we be giving him more freedom...when do you let them, in a sense, roam free...
Greetings all - I have a nine month old daughter and I am divorced. I see my daughter every 2 weeks for the weekend and one day a week on the off week. She is also cared for a night a week by her grandparents and the remainder of the time by her mother.
Last week...
My son now 2.5yrs still has his 'dody' for bedtime. He does ask for it during the day especially when he's tired and Daddy and I sometimes give in to stop his whinning! He sometimes wakes in the early hours asking for his 'dody' and we take it in turns to sort him o...
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my 5 month old son has been a very good sleeper from about 3 weeks old (im talking about 13-14 hours at a time in the night) BUT all of a sudden he has started waking up at about 1am and its now happening every night.
he has a bottle as well but abou...
I have a two year old son who goes to bed around 8 every night, won't take a nap and wakes up at 5am. He is grumpy all day and if I try to put him down for a nap it's a 2 hour screaming session that leaves me more frustrated than before. When he takes a nap in the ca...
I have a 9 year old son who we think may have dyslexia or a reading disability.I have been trying to get him tested since he was in kindergarden and have been put off every year by his teachers. this year finally the have given him an assessment to see if he has a re...
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I am divorced and have a 5 year old son. His father makes sporadic, inconsistent contact with him by phone, sometimes every other day and then possibly not for a week or two. He hasn't visited for nearly a year - he lives in another town - and has had my so...
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My 4 yr old daughter has a habit of putting her hands in her genitals whenever she sucks her finger. My wife is quit distraught. Can anyone explain this behavior and possibly ways to deal with it.
My 16 yr old step son, who is actually not my husbands bio son, keeps bringing in and smoking pot in my house. He has been in detention centers and boy/girls homes and has stolen from my two kids and my husband and myself. He is in an alternative high school and is...
We have a 12 year old boy he is shown lots of love from us and we spend time with him and do lots together. John is not the boys father and Liz and his father divorced when the boy was a baby. John met Liz when the boy was 8 and married when the boy was 10. John has...
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I'm a divorced Dad of a beautiful (but handful) 3 (almost 4) year old - and I have her every other weekend, per my visitation schedule.
Well, I'm trying NOT to be "Fun Dad". I'm trying not to be the host of my daughter's own 2-day resort where there's...
my seven year old son has allways enjoyed school does very well acidemically and his behaviour has been very good over the last week his teacher has expressed concern tat he is being disruptive not doing his work and genrally misbehaving i dont want his work or behav...
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My family are all sick, and so am I, OF THEM!!!!!!! I dont know sometimes if i am really cut out for the whole wife/mother bit. I cant stand being around moping sick people! Ewan had bad throat last week, and this week got sent home from school with im...
My 6yo son lives with my ex-wife and stays with me at weekends. We are both concerned about his nightmares and unsure about whether anything serious is wrong. We would really appreciate some advice.
He seems to have very intense nightmares maybe once a week (altho...
First time here, so bare with me. I'm a mom of 3, ages 13, 9 and 7. Girl, boy and girl. The two younger ones are the problem. I just don't know if I can continue being their mother. They just can't get along. Always hitting, being mean, saying mean things, scre...
my seven year old sons dad lives 3000 miles away, and the dad comes to visit my son 3 times per year. everytime he's here he buys my son bags of toys everyday, takes him to see 'R' rated movies, lets him say cuss words, and plays with him all day. he never makes him...
My ex and I separated in sept 2004. In march 2005 we tried living together again but by sept 2005 I had made the big decision to get divorced. But we did not actually live apart until March 2006...so now we have been separated for just about 1 year.
We have 2 kids...
I was wondering if anyone had advice on how to get my daughter to stop throwing tantrums before it becomes a habit? She has recently started throwing herself backwards if she doesn't get what she wants. Is this just normal behavior or what? I have no idea what to do...
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My daughter is a very lively young girl who goes out of her way to try and be friends with everybody. She usually makes friends very quickly e.g on holiday, play areas etc. But over the last few months I have noticed and she has complained that children at school and...
I am concerned about my 9 year old son, he is allowed to go on the internet at home although he is strictly monitored on messenger, child game sites and cheat code sites for his x –box. Today he was permitted to go on the internet at SCHOOL, pear pressure invol...
Never tried this before so here goes. My 7 year old son has started having trouble sleeping. Most nights he can't go to sleep because he thinks he'll have a nightmare (I'm not sure he entirely understands nightmares). When he does go to sleep he then wakes up ever...
my 3 year old daughter has become very quiet nothing has happened at home i even asked her school teachers but they just said she is a quiet child that it is just a phase she must be going through any help on this many thanks
Yesterday morning when I was getting my daughter dressed for kindergarten, she told me that she had decided she was not going to use the bathroom with her classmate Korrine anymore. I asked her why and she said because she always wants me to do yucky stuff and I don...
Anyone familiar with 'childhood anxiety separation disorder'? My 9yr old son has not left my side since last september! I just cant see an end to it. He isnt in school at the moment. We are waiting for an appointment with the child phsychologist at the moment.
Hi, everybody need some tip top advice on how too get my 17month old baby boy to listen to the word no, we are having the terrible twos very early, he just wont be told no for anything from no too smacking to no to climbing onto the the top of the television, if ther...
My 2 week old baby boy will not settle himself to sleep in his cot. We have tried everything - womb music, mother's T shirt in cot, staying with him and patting him, reassuring etc, going in every 10 mins, leaving him for half an hour (unless he gets really distresse...
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Hi, All ... My 14 yr. old son started smoking pot and drinking. He has been honest about it with me. I have made it clear it is not acceptable, not allowed, won't be tolerated. I told him he is not to bring anything in out home .. not to come home drunk or high. I...
help!I'm having trouble with a 7yr old adhd child and his 3 yr old sister.The battle never ends.They are in constant high energy fighting,running,hitting,kicking and agravating each other.nothing seems to work and all I'm getting is a lot of tantrums and headaches. A...
I have a daughter who is now 15 months old. I am expecting my second child, I am 10 months pregnant and I am suffering from nausea every day to the extent that I have no energy for my daughter. I hand her over to my husband and grandparents to look after every day. I...
My husband says she is too little to comprehend the meaning of sitting on the potty. She had a stomach bug which left her with a horrible diaper rash so i went out and bought her some panties. She woke up dry for 3 days. I would really like to try sitting her on the...
I took my two kids (age 1&4), out for lunch today. When we were getting ready to leave an old women came over to see my girls and was talking to them and the ussual stuff. Then she said good bye and before she left she kissed my kids. I found this odd and washed the...
One more 'sore subject' for my husband and I is the lack of discipline children get today.
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i feel a complete failure as a mother
i have a 4 yr old girl whose very head strong her behaviour recently is really testing me and putting a great strain on my relationship with my partner which i have another daughter aged 15months.
she has re...
Just recently my 7 yr old daughter has started to say that she wants to kill herself and she wishes she was dead. This has concerned me a lot. Should I worry or is it just attention seeking. Am I best to talk to her about it or ignore it and hope it goes away. I am w...
