oooh I need help. I have twin boys, 13 months (corrected 12 months). We have tried to encourage scheduling since about 7-8 months and it was working great until recently!!! One of them broke his ankle about 4 weeks ago and was casted for a few weeks, it is now off...
Our 8 year old so is so self centered and rude/mean to his brother and sometimes to his parents. He is constantly trying to one up his brother (5 1/2 years) and is always putting him down or trying to make him feel bad. He is the quintessential "cool kid". Everyon...
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I think i am loosing it, i have a 4 year old boy who is behaving oddly. He has a older cousin and is completely mesmerized by him in fact when this boy is around he does not play with anybody and hits if someone try to play with him. He also hugs and hold t...
I am mother of 5 and grandmother of 8. I have fostered children looked after children, baby sat etc. And I have never met a child who winds me up like my 3 and a half year old grandson - and it breaks my heart.
Let me explain the situation briefly.
My daughter...
Yesterday we found out that my 12 year old son had stolen from his 8 year old brother. He wasn't being deliberately mean and didn't need the money - he even shared it with a friend. And he's very upset and contrite now we know. He knows he's lost our trust, and he...
Hello Im new to this forum. Me and my wife are in the early stages of creating a child safety website. www.mychildsafety.net Please leave comments here on the forum. We need your advice on how to improve on the subject matter or any thing we could add to help parent...
i have a 2 yr old who will scream if any body strange walks through the door, she has her regulars who she is use to like my friends who have been here since her birth, but any body different she will get hysterical. help me
Does anyone have any good advice about my normally sweet, loving 1-year-old who has taken to being aggressive with me? He will smack my face, or take off my glasses roughly. He will kick while I am trying to change his diaper with the intention of kicking me.
I...
This sounds really silly and every time I tell colleagues/friends about it they just laugh but I'm at the end of my tether. My 4 yr old boy has been having tantrums about his shoes, socks, eye lashes, collars and labels. The collars and labels problem has only just...
I have a tangled situation for which I'd be grateful for any advice:
My 17 year old son's has a best friend (male) that he's known for over 14 years.
The best friend visits the house often, and over the course of the last few months has become very friendly wit...
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Took me awhile to find this board after I lost all my internet bookmarks....
We are having issues with a host of behaviours that pop up, especially after being at Dad's, most of which seem to occur at daycare only.
My son is 3 1/2, and is generally cal...
I have a 6yr old daughter and i am seperated from her dad. She has been sleeping there 2 nights a week, however she sleeps in the same room as him as he only has 1 bedroom. She has now announced that she does not like sleeping in the same room as him and wants to sle...
I am mother of 4 girls and my oldest is 7 yrs old.
I can't take anymore of her bad behaviour, she constantly picks on the other 3, she has terrible attitude, breaks or ruins things in house.
I have tried reward charts, naughty step and now took all her toys away!...
My brother and his wife have two sons, S,11 and J,8. S is a normal boys' boy. J has been into girly things ever since anyone can remember. Most of what I know I have either seen myself or my daughters (10 and 8) have told me. His hair is a bit past shoulder lenght...
My daughter has problems sometimes interacting with other children, she misinterprets facial expressions and body language from others as being nasty or talking about her, when they are not. She also likes to dominate any activity she is involved in, and does not see...
My son will be 3 in July and I'm having the worst problems with him at school! There are days that he will be the sweetest kid in class but once you set him off he will hit, bite,kick and pee on his teacher and other students as well as push book shelfs over. My hus...
hi my daughter is 2 and i still cant get her in a bedtime routine i end up having to pretend to go to bed otherwise she crys for hours please help any adivce welcome
My 2 1/2yr old will not stay in bed for naps/bedtime. We have tried positive reinforcement, keeping the door closed, routines etc. If she does not take a nap she will be passing out before bedtime.
My 9 year old son recently wrote some swear words on one of his papers that he had to hand in to a teacher. It said F... you. The teacher and the school were obviously not pleased and he has been expelled for a week.
I am wondering if other people have experience...
Hi Ladies and Gents,
Well its been a while since I posted a question, but I have come up against a bit of a head scratcher.
Jake, my 11 year old, has started to become obsessed with being ill. Every day its something different, and this has been going on for ab...
My son is 11 years old.
He confided in me something that happened a couple of years ago (when he was 9) with his best male friend. it was of a sexual matter, and only related to the two of them, there was no older person involved.
he has gotten upset about it...
My daughter just turned one year old and has always been a good eater. She feeds herself and mostly eats table food. Lately she has been spitting out her food at mealtime and won't eat. How do I stop this behavior?
I have a 18 month year old, and he is going through the stage of hitting and bitting his older brother and sister. His older brother (9) and sister (7) know that they can't do anything about it, and they feel helpless. How young is to young to put my child in time ou...
Hi, I am in need of some help. I have 3 children ages 9,5, and 2. They are normally well behaved, but lately when we go out to eat dinner or go to the store they run around and won't stay in their seats.This is really becoming an issue with my husband and I. We alway...
This is my first post, but I could use some outside perspectives. My wife and I separated two years ago and my 10 and 5 year old sons have had a tough time with it. Added to that, I was sent to Iraq for 4 months last year, then was told while there that I have been r...
Can anyone give me some advice? We have a 3yr old son. Just lately, he has become really clingy towards me and won't have anything to do with daddy. When daddy comes home from work, he is told to go away. If i leave the room, he starts to cry and asks me where i am g...
Our child was playing with another this past weekend when a small but much beloved toy was found missing immdeiately after the other child left. They both collect the toys involved so some intermixing is expected, but our child's are all marked with initals for easy...
Hi,
i have a problem with my 4 year old daughter.She has always been a little clingy on and off at times but i think she has a problem with confidence.She wont have her photo taken,well she will at home but if shes in a situation like school pictures when people are...
My 3yr old has had many viruses and infections leading to the removal of his tonsils and adinoids and the insersion of ear grommets in both ears at the age of 2yrs 9months.
8 weeks ago he started to bleed from one of his ears and had a massive blood clot blocking...
My 5yr old has a habit or problem, not sure which it is, and wont go to the toilet for a poo, but sticks her finger in her bum to push it back up. We think she is being lazy and wants to do other things instead, and cant get her to stop doing it. Any advice would be...
I would very much appreciate if someone could tell me I've handled this ok...or not as the case may be.
My son who's just turned 4 was playing very nicely with a girl in the playground while waiting for nursery to open, they started by having a really cute cuddle...
My 7yr old daughter has started to steal - initally pencils etc from school. Now she has taken money from home maily coins. Last week she took €50 from my husbands wallet and bought chewing gum - we found the change in her handbag.
We have discussed this wit...
I have a 6year old who keeps fidgiting in certain types of chairs which all started when she was a baby in her carseat. Now shes started fidgeting in school and the teacher has started asking all sorts in sinister questions about it to her.
I am realy worried abo...
I have a 14 year old boy that defies everything i say. I say black he says white just to argue.His father was removed for domestic abuse over a year ago. I realize that he is a teenager and it comes with the territory but he is so mean and is constantly yelling at me...
I am no longer on the chalk face but after years of teaching in a variety of secondary schools I find the current debates on the level of achievement of boys versus girls a cop out after the current government has had 10 years in office. A document produced by this g...
My 14 yr old (middle) son has been very difficult over the past 2 yrs. He has been excluded from school and in trouble with th police. He has a very viscious temper (similar to his dad, my ex) He refuses to acknowldge the word NO exists. I try to get him to talk wi...
Hi, my little brother is unusually tall for his age and because of his lack of attention and carelessness, he seems to be hurting the other kids in his class. He doesn't mean to, but he doesn't understand that he's bigger than most of the other kids. For instance, he...
Hi everyone I'd be really grateful for some advice.
My son is 9 years old and I'm having problems.
He won't do as he's told at school and the teacher is becoming very frustrated with him. I had to go in and see her about it last week and she said that she woul...
How do you help to girls ages 9 and 7 deal with their dad working out of town? This is the 1st time ever that he has to leave and my girls are taking it really hard. I would appriecate any suggestions or ideas. Thanks!!!
Hi, I am having some difficulty lately with my healthy 6 yr old son, he acts very young for his age, and is very anxious of everything, specially load noises, also if i tell him something he needs to be told a million times for him to take in what ive said, and if i...
My 14 yr old son has been a big concern to me over the past 2 yrs. He was finally perm excluded from school and has been in touble with the police a number of times. His friends wouldnt be my choice.My son doesnt think the word NO exists. He does exactly as he wishes...
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My two year old daughter cries and runs to her room whenever other people come to the house.
She feels secured and calm and is very expressive of her feelings whenever we are around. I always tell her that those people cannot harm...
I am a working mother and my baby stays in the day care after nursery. Still she wets her panty in sleep in the night and also during day time. Some times even if she is awake she does this. Is ther any connection between me being away most of the time? How shall I h...
Just wondering, are you the author of the book "Raising our children, Raising ourselves"? I have been visiting this site for a couple of years and in almost every reply you give to people, you refer to this book. Are you in fact, Dr Naomi Aldort?
I am wondering what people would do if there child came home from being with their "other" parent and told you that they saw "other" parent pushing and slamming the step-parent around and they are arguing a lot when the child can hear and see what is going on.
Tha...
My 5 year old daughter was caught at aftercare today humping on a little boy. She was the agressor and I just don't know how to approch her. I want to punish her and spank her butt, but is this right? What am I supposed to do in this situation?
