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Teen with Bad Attitude 
How do I get a teen with bad attitude under control? She skips school with boys, lies, yellows, rolls her eyes and stomps her feet, talks back and argues ...

Bad Attitude 
My daughter is 10 years old and her bad attitude is that of a 16 year old. She's really good for the most part, but once something ticks her off, she'...

Calling Stepmother Mom  

Calling Stepmother Mom

I have a 4 year old daughter. I share custody with her dad who is married. I just found out that my daughter is ...

Pre-teen Daughter vs. My Husband 

I have a 12 yr old daughter from previous marriage. I have been remarried for 2 years, having been with my current husband for 7 years total....

Boy's Aggressive Behavior Toward Parents 
Addressing a Young Boy's Aggressive Behavior Toward Parents

Dear Ms. Ramirez,

I am writing to ask about what seems to be a pattern of ...

Problem Adult Children 
My daughters are 38 and 39 and have had a friendly and loving relationship with their stepfather since they were 8 and 9 years old respectively. All hell ...

Co-parenting Discipline 
My ex-wife and 11 year old daughter have a volatile relationship. My ex's unrealistic expectations result in a screaming fight between them, and ends in ...

Son with ADHD? Help! SOS! 
Son with ADHD?

I am currently planning to have my son tested for ADHD. Last week, he threw our kitten out a second story window and tried to jump out ...

Boyfriend with Kid Advice 
I've never dated a man with a kid until now and with all my other boyfriends, I always had all the attention - sometimes too much. With the man I'm with ...

Adult Child Suicide 
My adult son, 34 years old, has lost his job, his girl fiend and has no place to live. He is well educated, an accomplished welder and feels hopeless....

Age of consent vs the medical world 
Recently my 13 year old has been diagnosed with a disorder. The doctors are pushing her age of 13 as their right to alienate me from my parental rights ...

Son with Alcohol and Anger Problems 
My son will be 21 in November. I have had behavior problems with him since primary school he has a problem with authority and will simply just ignore when ...

Teen smoking, trouble with the law, single parent home 
I have a 15 year old son. I am a single mother to him and his brother who is 11. For the last year and half, my 15-year old's behavior has drastically ...

Bipolar / Borderline personality disorders 
My adult sister (42) has started drinking heavily, abusing prescription drugs and threatening suicide, she is also a cutter. She has never left home and ...

Mid Night Bottle Feed 
My daughter of 18 months continues to want a bottle (goat's milk) every night between 4 am and 5 am. She will cry and cry until she gets it and as soon ...

social development 
Social development question:

How do I prevent my child from getting socially and emotionally attached to certain people who she thinks love her, but ...

Violent Child Behaviour 

My son is 2 years 10 months old. He is an intelligent child, but he has a bad habit of hitting his friends. Initially, he used to push away his friends ...

How do I handle a relationship between my emotionally abusive mother and my daughter? 
I am 32 years old and 26 weeks pregnant ... we found out early that this is a high risk pregnancy and should avoid stress. I have been pushed all of my ...

temper tantrums, teen smoking, taking off 
My boys are very angry and have temper tantrums, they both smoke and sometimes they don't come home at all until they feel the need to.

Will the Total ...

What to Tell a Child About His Daddy 
My partner and I just had a beautiful baby boy on Father's Day. The problem that has been on my mind is what to say when our son is old enough to ask about ...

Child Cries Instead of Saying Sorry 
If my daughter (5 1/2) hurts her dad or myself (by mistake i.e her head hits your nose or something) instead of saying sorry as we ask her to do, she starts ...

Breaking the Bottle and Pacifier 
My daughter will turn one this month and we're breaking her of the binkie. We also want to get rid of the bottle. Should we do them both at the same time ...

Other kids picking on my kid 
I have a 3 and a half year old who we have raised well in my opinion. We tell him not to hit other kids, and when other kids hit him, to tell them to stop....

Fussing Baby 
I have a 4-week old and he's fussing a lot recently.
I give him gas drops and burp him after every feeding.
Help ... am I missing something?

Constipated Baby 
I have been breastfeeding my daughter for 2 months now. I introduced formula to her but now her bowel movements have slowed way down. With breast milk ...

Single Mother with Series of Boyfriends 
Our daughter has 2 sons who are 3 and 8. She has one boyfriend after another who move in, watch the kids, and leave after a time while she works continually....

Stepson Doesn't Know How to Do for Himself  Not rated yet
I am married to a man with 3 children and we have one of our own. There is a nine year old boy, 10 year old girl, and another 6 year old girl and I have ...

5 yr old got her hair cut at school  Not rated yet
Don't know where to begin. Her father died when she was 3 but she seemed to be doing well. Yesterday at school (kindergarten), another kid cut her "bangs"...

Win Child Back from Grandparents  Not rated yet
My wife and I are working overseas. We left our child with my parents since he was 6 months old... we got the opportunity to bring him here with us together ...

Possible ADHD  Not rated yet
Our son is sometimes anti-social but mostly shy at times, argues at times and it is a real battle to get him to study or remember what to do at times. He ...

Granddaughter Doesn't Want to Come Over Anymore  Not rated yet
My son has a daughter from a previous marriage, and she comes over to my house every other weekend. She has always enjoyed coming over to my house most ...

Child Eating Habits  Not rated yet
Child Eating Habits

My son is 27 months old and I am worried about his eating habits. I have exhausted myself trying everything from being strict and ...

Questioning 19 Year Old Son  Not rated yet
My son is 19 and is friends with a 19 year old man. He came home from work at 11:30 pm and then left to go over this man's house. When I questioned this ...

Child's Question on How Babies get in Tummy  Not rated yet
Child's Question on How Babies get in Tummy

My stepson, who is 6 and is in kindergarten, asked me this morning how do babies get in the tummy. Since ...

Irresponsible Child  Not rated yet
My son is 9 and half years old and I consider him to be an irresponsible child in some ways. For instance, he does not pay attention to the instructions ...

Baby Pacifier  Not rated yet
At what age is a child too old to be given a baby pacifier? Also, what are some of the health risks that can happen if the child continues to be given ...

Explaining Santa Claus  Not rated yet
How is the best way to explain to my soon to be 11 year old that Santa is not real?

Teenage Daughter Just Doesn't Come Home  Not rated yet
I have joint custody and have been in court for 8 years with my ex husband and his girlfriend. My daughter plays both sides and when she is supposed to ...

How to Stop Tantrums  Not rated yet
My 19 month old toddler has been getting in the habit of throwing himself (hard) on the ground and screaming and crying over the smallest things. Say for ...

Age for Walking to School  Not rated yet
At what age is it appropriate to allow my son walk to school?

was I wrong to call police on my son?  Not rated yet
I am the divorced mother of a 19 year-old son. When he becomes enraged, he shouts vulgar profanity at the top of his lungs. I have repeatedly told him ...

Lying Child  Not rated yet
My friend's child came home and confessed that he had been lying to her all along. How can she deal with this?

Troubled Stepmom  Not rated yet
My husband and I met about 3 years ago. He has two little boys 3 & 5 who I love like my own. Their biological mother hasn't been in the picture since the ...

Parent of a Single Parent  Not rated yet
My daughter, a single parent, has a full time job and takes the baby to day care during the day. She lives 45 minutes away from us and close to her work....

Controlling Emotions  Not rated yet
I teach 3 year olds. I have a student who has a condition that makes him a lot smaller than the rest of my group. At school, he's very emotional. He doesn'...

Temper Tantrums by Grown Daughter  Not rated yet
My 21-1/2 year daughter, when stressed, tends to bully specifically me. She seems to blame me for her problems/worries. How do I handle this?

The parent who doesn't parent  Not rated yet
My 15 month old son and I were in the park this week and "Ben", a four year old carrying a small branch with leaves on it runs over to my child and whacks ...

Disturbing comments  Not rated yet
My 4-year old son is extremely bright and very loving. He has always been very active, and has had some fairly "normal" behavioral problems but nothing ...

Public School Options  Not rated yet
Do you have information on options for high school age boys who need more structure and personalized attention than can be provided in the public schools?...

Appropriate Age for Boy to Warm Up Car for Parent  Not rated yet
At what age would you stay it is appropriate for a parent to allow a boy to go outside and start a car to allow him to warm it up (note that the parent ...

loner kid  Not rated yet
My son is 3 years old. He is very sociable, but his problem is that he doesn't play with kids his age, he likes bigger kids, and he likes older people....

Temper Tantrums  Not rated yet
My six-year daughter gets angry very fast and then uses rough language. She wants to do everything as she has thought and doesn't accept others' choices....

Temper tantrums  Not rated yet
I am a parent but I am asking this question as a caregiver. We have a child who is very intelligent and first impression and some of the time he is the ...

School vs Children's Activities  Not rated yet
I have a nephew who is 13, almost 14. Since I can remember, his parents have let him put hours and hours in activities outside of school. First, it was ...

Temper tantrums  Not rated yet
I am a teacher. Recently the school I have joined does not allow teachers to scold or punish the children and as a result the children have become uncontrollable ...