http://www.parenting-child-development.com/parenting-blog.html Parenting Blog offers insights into the issues today's parents face from understanding child behavior and discipline to parenting advice and tips for parents from all walks of life. en-us parenting Tue, 15 May 2012 12:47:06 GMT Tue, 15 May 2012 12:47:06 GMT parenting-child-development.com http://www.parenting-child-development.com/i-can-really-relate-to-this-story.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/i-can-really-relate-to-this-story.html Wow...I just started a blog to write through the exact same feelings that you describe in your story. Your story outlines exactly how I am feeling right Tue, 15 May 2012 12:47:01 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/father-acts-as-immature-as-his-teen.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/father-acts-as-immature-as-his-teen.html As a father of 3 teenagers, 13, 15, 15, I expect childish behavior now and then. Seeing childish behavior from an adult, with a gun, scares me Sat, 12 May 2012 02:22:46 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/parenting-videos.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/parenting-videos.html Parenting videos to help you raise healthy, happy, respectful kids. Fri, 11 May 2012 13:54:34 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/appropriate-discipline-at-school-of-four-year-old.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/appropriate-discipline-at-school-of-four-year-old.html My four year old daughter has been recently complaining about going to preschool. This is a HUGE sudden change. She usually wants to go even when sick Fri, 11 May 2012 01:22:50 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/14-year-old-son-has-problem-with-his-divorced-dad-dating.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/14-year-old-son-has-problem-with-his-divorced-dad-dating.html My son has been avoiding spending time with my girlfriend who I have been dating for almost a year. I waited to introduce him to her until about six months Fri, 11 May 2012 01:19:09 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/confused-but-dnt-noe-if-i-can-say-used.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/confused-but-dnt-noe-if-i-can-say-used.html When I was a child I had sex with someone who was a year younger than me in my family. We both are females. I was a bit slow I believe growing up. For Fri, 11 May 2012 01:15:31 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/a-feather-in-the-wind.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/a-feather-in-the-wind.html Never knowing who I was, what I was, where I belonged.....floating here, floating there, like a feather....going nowhere really. At age 3 I knew what Fri, 11 May 2012 01:08:46 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/guilt-is-a-terrible-cloud.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/guilt-is-a-terrible-cloud.html At the age of 21, I was married. The next year, we gave birth to a beautiful son. My world was bliss, his father and I spent our lives treasuing our baby. Fri, 11 May 2012 01:01:28 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/odd.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/odd.html Without reading the above brief paragraph on ODD I couldnt name it. My son is all of the above. Angry, disrespectful. He hurts his siblings. Jack is 12 Fri, 11 May 2012 00:54:03 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/at-7-still-dependant-on-adults-for-bathing-grooming-going-to-the-loo.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/at-7-still-dependant-on-adults-for-bathing-grooming-going-to-the-loo.html Hi My daughter is going to be 7 in a month. My concern is that she still asks an adult her father or her grandmother whenever she needs to pee, go to Fri, 11 May 2012 00:47:21 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/i-need-help.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/i-need-help.html I'm 26 years old. I've been dating my boyfriend for 2 years. He has a son that is 7 and a daughter that is 3. Let me preface this by saying they are Thu, 03 May 2012 17:13:58 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/my-two-year-old-daughter-vs-my-girlfriend.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/my-two-year-old-daughter-vs-my-girlfriend.html I am a 26 year old lesbian and mother of a two year old. Up until my daughter was 20 months old, it had just been the two of us. After falling in love Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:44:44 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/been-there-since-he-was-6-months-old.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/been-there-since-he-was-6-months-old.html Recently, my stepson let me know that he thought of me only as a roommate, and not an authority figure. He is 17 & 1/2. I have been in his life since Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:42:31 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/i-cant-do-it-any-more.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/i-cant-do-it-any-more.html I have been with my husband 6 years now, married 4. when we met he was in a relationship with 2 of this children's mother who was in prison for 3 years Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:41:35 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/father-abuses-son.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/father-abuses-son.html My first memories are of my father fondling me and performing oral sex on me. When I was 7 he bought me a bike and in the middle of the night Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:20:09 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/feeling-guilty.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/feeling-guilty.html Moved home to spend time with Mom and to help as she just turned 80. My 25 yr old daughter lives with Mom, too. She has not been working, has been in Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:35:53 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/step-parents-ability-to-understand-parenting-role.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/step-parents-ability-to-understand-parenting-role.html I am interested in advice, books or other resources on the challenges of when a step parent does not have children of his or her own. I am a biological Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:33:31 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/ten-year-old-irrational.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/ten-year-old-irrational.html Two years ago, my 10 year old daughter was diagnosed with anxiety disorder; she is still having trouble behaving her age. She is very capable, but when Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:29:38 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/coping-with-daddy-not-being-home-for-a-3-yr-old.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/coping-with-daddy-not-being-home-for-a-3-yr-old.html My daughter is 3 yrs old. Her biological father has never been in her life. She knows him but calls him by his name. Right after my daughter was born i Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:02:26 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/blaming-mother.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/blaming-mother.html Why is the mother to blame about something the father did. What if the mother didn't even know that was going on and knew nothing about such a thing as Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:59:11 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/step-parent-spying-on-teenage-stepdaughter.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/step-parent-spying-on-teenage-stepdaughter.html My husband is upset because my daughter age 16 no longer wants him to speak to her. Mostly because he calls her a b---ch. she is actually a top student. Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:16:40 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/ive-come-really-far.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/ive-come-really-far.html The sexual abuse by the hands of my father ended when my mother returned for me, as she had left him fearing her own life. And in her absence the sexual Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:14:05 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/10-yr-old-hitting.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/10-yr-old-hitting.html My son has just hit a little girl at school who is 2 years younger than him, - they had a disagreement over a stick for den building at break time, and Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:12:51 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/teenager-daughter-has-crush.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/teenager-daughter-has-crush.html My teenage daughter has a crush on a boy from school, but he already has a girlfriend. We tell her to avoid him but she tells him to call her. When he Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:51:24 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/did-i-write-that.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/did-i-write-that.html I started crying reading 'adolescense at 59', not out of sadness, but out of joy (for lack of a better word) that I am not crazy and that there are others Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:49:57 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/temper-tantrums-about-food.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/temper-tantrums-about-food.html We are introducing our one year old daughter to more solid foods, of which the day care is having better luck with feeding her than we are. She has a Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:08:06 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/help-for-step-mom.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/help-for-step-mom.html Hi. I am the stepmomster to a wonderful young man who is 13. Let me try and sum this up...My husband was married to bio mom and had T. She then left husband Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:33:55 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/lack-of-concentration.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/lack-of-concentration.html My son is 6 years doing grade 1, He is having a problem of not concentrating when you talk or teach him something, most of the time when you talk to him, Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:36:40 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/my-boyfriends-son-and-ex-wife-are-trying-to-break-us-up.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/my-boyfriends-son-and-ex-wife-are-trying-to-break-us-up.html I want to start by saying that I love my boy friend and his son, however I am wondering if this is the relationship of my dreams. I thought it was... is Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:34:23 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/divorce-and-my-10-year-old.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/divorce-and-my-10-year-old.html we've recently divorced and my 10 year old seems to hate me. She doesn't want to come see me and when she does she won't talk to me. Her mom has told Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:14:24 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/my-11-yrs-starting-biting-his-mates-in-school-as-a-self-defence-alternative.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/my-11-yrs-starting-biting-his-mates-in-school-as-a-self-defence-alternative.html I have been so shocked the last two days knowing that my son bit 3 of friends in school as a self defence attitude...we as parents we always tell him to Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:28:19 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/reclusive-19-year-old.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/reclusive-19-year-old.html my 19 y/o daughter moved into an apartment in a new town to go to college (no dorms available). She has had a lot of trouble making friends which is unusual Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:27:04 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/new-step-father-new-house-rules-for-9-year-old-boy.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/new-step-father-new-house-rules-for-9-year-old-boy.html I have a 9 year old boy...life the past few years were crazy with ex husband coming out of closet so in a small town ...a lot of people helped to shield Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:29:55 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/dont-know-where-to-turn.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/dont-know-where-to-turn.html I married my husband when his daughter was just three (now almost 11). I had a daughter who was ten at the time (now 18) and we have a daughter together Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:57:04 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/step-children-who-bully-their-step-parents.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/step-children-who-bully-their-step-parents.html my step daughter who is 18 has always lived with her dad, we have been together for 9 years and she made it clear the first day we moved in together that Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:52:20 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/two-wrongs.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/two-wrongs.html Two wrongs do not make a right Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:48:44 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/two-young-boys-who-dont-listen-to-a-word-we-say-and-are-aggressive.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/two-young-boys-who-dont-listen-to-a-word-we-say-and-are-aggressive.html I have two young boys that are at the age of 3 and 11 months and the other is 2 and 2 month old boy. My eldest has always been a difficult child, particularly Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:43:56 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/what-should-i-do-about-stepdaughter.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/what-should-i-do-about-stepdaughter.html what should i do when i build a supposed strong relationship with my 16 yr old stepdaughter, set clear boundaries, make consequences to her actions; stealing, Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:37:27 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/baby-not-sleeping-the-night.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/baby-not-sleeping-the-night.html my baby who is 5 months old has started this routine of not sleeping at night and regularly asking for a feeding every 2nd hour....this has been happening Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:37:49 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/photos-of-my-future-husbands-child-in-our-house.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/photos-of-my-future-husbands-child-in-our-house.html My fiancé and I live in two different states, approximately 8 hours away from each other. I am in the process of relocating to a home we are purchasing Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:50:14 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/teenagers-and-summer-jobs.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/teenagers-and-summer-jobs.html just wondering how to stop fighting with step son about getting a job during summer break. Any input or direction on teenagers and summer jobs would be Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:11:35 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/molested-by-pediatrician-at-13.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/molested-by-pediatrician-at-13.html I was given my first adult physical by my pediatrician 35 years ago. The man molested me - measured my penis with a cloth tape measure (among other things) Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:45:49 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/adult-daughter-wants-to-go-on-vacation-with-boyfriend.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/adult-daughter-wants-to-go-on-vacation-with-boyfriend.html My daughter who is 25 years old, living at home, responsible for her own bills wants to go on a vacation with a guy of the same age. They have been going Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:44:47 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/children-negativelypositively-affected-behavior-by-homeschooling.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/children-negativelypositively-affected-behavior-by-homeschooling.html I have a question, I have a 5, 7, and 8 yr. old I am homeschooling. The two younger children, I feel (do not act their age) most times, I see other public Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:21:53 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/parenting-teens.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/parenting-teens.html I understand the setting and need for boundaries, but what do you do when your child does not obey these boundaries? I am a single mum and live on a low Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:20:26 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/treating-kids-differently.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/treating-kids-differently.html i have been in a relationship for 3 years i have 3 boys my partner has 3 children a boy and 2 girls. we have his children every second weekend and over Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:38:06 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/adult-children-may-be-living-with-parents-because-it-is-a-cultural-thing-and-not-a-negative-thing.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/adult-children-may-be-living-with-parents-because-it-is-a-cultural-thing-and-not-a-negative-thing.html Hi: It's interesting to see people's perspectives on living with Adult Children. When I graduated from College in 1982, it was assumed that I was going Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:39:36 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/picking-up-bad-vibes-from-15-year-old-step-son-who-visits-family-home.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/picking-up-bad-vibes-from-15-year-old-step-son-who-visits-family-home.html my partner has has taken this personally and blames me when mutually the stepson feels this way by his actions towards me. We disagree with time away Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:18:43 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/parenting-a-teen.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/parenting-a-teen.html my oldest son just turned 16 yrs old and honestly is a good kid. our relationship is good, open and honest, he knows he can tell me anything even if its Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:05:45 GMT http://www.parenting-child-development.com/stepdaughters-eating-habits.html http://www.parenting-child-development.com/stepdaughters-eating-habits.html My stepdaughter is getting skinnier each day, she barely eats, and seems very afraid of most foods, but, she cooks and bakes up a storm! But, she never Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:04:02 GMT