My almost 5 year-old boy got upset during dinner because I tried his food to see if it was hot and he was hungry and moody so he pushed the plate away and the plate fell on the ground and broke and I had food all around.
I did not know how to respond. What could have I done in that situation?
I have gone back to work full time and my almost 5yo son is not choosing me. He is only choosing dad. Help!
I recently started to work full time since my son was born and he and I are having difficulties transitioning to the new situation. He is almost 5 years old and this is also the first time he is going full time to school in a new place. He is experiencing a number of changes. He is manifesting his feelings by ignoring me, being disrespectful and not wanting me to put him in bed and read a story to him. Now he only wants his daddy to be with him and not me. I am so sad! What is the right thing to do?
My 10yo daughter is having a hard time making friends in her new class. How can I help her best?
My daughter just started 4th grade.
She is in a class with mostly new peers, only a few kids from her class last year. Her close friends are not in class with her. She is struggling a bit with the transition and feels that she has difficulty making new friends. She has a growing friendship with two girls who are closer and she often feels excluded. One of them actually said yesterday she was the third wheel.
How can I help her?
Should I keep my son in summer camp although he has expressed not wanting to go?
One of my sons is enrolled in an art camp that he thrives in, doing something he loves and is successful at. His final piece for the end of year school art gallery was amazing and I’m pretty amazed at his talent. However, he is telling me he doesn’t want to go to art summer camp. When I ask why he says he needs a break from the school environment, wants to have play dates and do other things over the summer. Should I let him?
How do I speak to my son about body image and is it ok to call him when he's with his dad?
I have two unrelated questions today.
My son has been talking a lot lately about not liking the way he looks. He sometimes looks at the mirror and says he is ugly and the other day he told me girls at school are telling him he is short. I am not sure how to help him.
When he is with dad and I call him, he doesn't seem to want to talk most of the time.
My 7yo and 5yo sons have nasty fights. What is the best way to handle them?
My 7yo and 5yo sons play well most of the time but continue to get into nasty fights over silly things and I see a lot of anger coming from both of them when the other does something annoying.
Should I punish the one that hits by placing them in time-out or taking away a benefit like no tv later etc?
My son is disrupting the class and it's becoming an issue. How do we manage this?
Today my husband got this message from the homework club teacher:
“I'm having difficulties with your son in the homework club. He's very smart, works quickly and is an amazing reader. The issue is that he's loud, silly and constantly distracting the students. The kids in my class have asked me to make him stop talking because they can't focus.”
Would you have advice as to what to say to our son and the teacher?
How do I help my school aged son manage his big feelings?
My son has always been a highly sensitive kid that is highly aware of everything and everyone around him but I have noticed that as he is getting older he keeps looking for more validation from the outside and I really want to help him change this because it is a struggle for him whenever he does not get this.
My almost 5yo daughter is not eating at school. How can I help her?
About a month ago, my almost 5yo daughter had major issues around not going to school and extracurricular refusal. On top of being sick with a cold, she has also started refusing lunch at school (no matter if it's indoor/outdoor).
She is getting more and more upset even when she is asked to sit at the table now.
Do you have some ideas on what we can try to encourage her to eat with friends in school again?
How do I help my tween son channel/ work through his emotions in the healthiest way possible?
I have a question about my tween and anxiety. I have noticed that my son bites his nails and fidgets with something in his hand, and now I’ve noticed he bites the side of his mouth. I think it is increased anxiety from an increase in school work/ expectations/ longer days in school.
What is the best course of action to take?
What type of responsibilities should a soon to be 8 year old have?
Is it ok to allow my daughter to call her friends after she's done with homework?
During weekdays, if my daughter is done with all of her schoolwork, is it appropriate to allow her to call her friends?
Part of me wants to say yes, she has earned the social time. But part of me wants to say no, as sometimes I feel like she rushes through homework or practicing piano just to get to the call. And perhaps the time at home is an opportunity to work on other things, since she got social time during the school day… Or has she?
My daughter has started obsessing over the idea that she is fat. What is the healthy way to approach this?
We had a playdate incident and would like to understand my daughter's big feelings.
We had a little incident at a playdate recently. We met another family at the park for lunch. My daughter doesn't know the little girl all that well, but she had a lot of fun on the playground with her. We went on to ride the train at the park and she said she wanted to sit alone (vs with her friend). I said, “oh honey, let's sit with our new friend” and she said no. There were limited seats so the other mom sat with her daughter and son in the front row seat (it was a quick shuffle). My daughter had a fit because she wanted to sit in the front and kept saying "no one is listening to me." She and I ended up sitting together a few seats away from them and she kept saying "they are so mean, they are so stupid, I am never playing with them again, I just want to scream so badly."
Should I have just taken her home right after the train ride?
Why does she get particularly stuck around the “no one is listening to me” scenarios?
My 7yo daughter was singing an alarming song she may have learned from a school mate. How do I handle this?
This morning was kind of alarming. As both girls are getting ready for school, I hear my 7yo daughter singing in a calm voice but all of the sudden the song is saying "I hate myself therefore I want to kill myself". In a "la,la,la" sort of way...
I asked, “Did you make that song up or did you hear it somewhere?” She says that she heard two boys at school singing it and it stuck in her head. I asked if the teacher said anything and she said no, but I don't know if she even heard it.
Did I have the wrong approach to this?
Should I have said something different and if so should I bring this subject up again?
I don't know if I should mention this to the teacher, the parents of these boys or what. Help!
I'm having a hard time connecting with my tween son. Help!
My almost 7yo is experiencing daily wetting. Is this normal?
My soon to be 7yo son is still experiencing daily wetting. There really have not been any changes lately that could give us a clear answer to what could be causing this and he seems to not notice until his pants are already wet and then he runs to the bathroom. Sometimes we ask him to use the bathroom and he says he does not want to and 5 min later his pants are wet. What do we do?
School drop off has become very difficult. What do we do?
My 5.75yo daughter has started to develop some really big separation anxiety since returning from winter break. She has experienced a couple of transitions with a new nanny, and I went out of town last weekend. But now I am back and today was 25 minutes of crying at school for my goodbye. Each day seems worse and worse. What do we do?
What am I missing when talking to my 10.5yo daughter about body image?
We are going away without our children. How do we handle this?
My husband and I plan to go on a trip together for 10 days without the girls. We want to prepare them and ourselves in the best possible way. How do we do this before we leave? When do we let them know it's happening? What should we do while we are gone? How do we join back after we arrive home in the best way?