Questions about why children act the way they do. See the tag [discipline] about enforcing your rules.
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2 Year old son like hitting , bitting and fighting [duplicate]
My son is two years old now. Somehow he likes fighting. His mornings start with hitting and biting. I know for him it's a game and he enjoys it. Also, sometimes he becomes angry and throws whatever is ...
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When to tell a child he didn't really win
My five year-old son has started this phase of turning everything into a contest. Partially this a result of our encouragement. We will sometimes "race" him when he is dragging his feet and slowing ...
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How can my 7yo daugher increase her attention span in school?
I just had a chat today with the teacher of my 7 years old daughter. The teacher told me my daughter has a very short attention span during the class. She can't concentrate more than a few minutes on ...
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How can a parent remain sane? How do you keep your energy and temper? [closed]
I'm sure every parent has days like this:
Your child has been a troublemaker all day. You are exhausted, and at your wits' end. It would be nice to just take a break, to have someone else take ...
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Should I stop my infant from sucking his thumb?
My 2-month-old has recently discovered his thumb. He used to often suck his hands, normal baby behavior, and occasionally would "find" his thumb and happily suck for a while - usually when he was ...
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Should we use a smiley chart to reward/punish our toddler?
Possible Duplicate:
How to operate a successful “Star Chart”?
Our nanny came up with an idea today to create a sort of table for our daughter, where they would draw a sun or ...
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How do you deal with when you've had a “parenting fail”?
I suppose all parents/caregivers may feel this way from time to time, but when a child does not listen to you or you have had a "parenting fail" so to speak, how do you deal with this?
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15 mo old son becomes very fussy every evening when I come home from work
I'm a working mom of 15 month old baby. We are lucky to have our grandmas to help us babysit our child while me and my husband are at work.
Recently we had a grandma's swap, one grandmother left for 2 ...
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5 year old always yells when excited, and isn't learning when to use quieter voices
I'll start by saying I don't think it's a hearing problem, as she uses a normal voice in non-excited conversation, and can hear questions asked to her in a normal voice (aside from what I suspect is ...
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How do you handle a child who enjoys getting others into trouble?
How do you deal with a primary-school age child who enjoys getting others into trouble? Is actually alert for minor wrongdoings and likes to set other people against each other? Can be other children, ...
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How and when can you teach a child to use an “indoor voice”?
We don't generally tell my son to be quiet, as its rarely necessary (despite his being extremely vocal). We want to encourage communication and his ability to express himself.
However, there are ...
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How can we get our 5 year old son to control his temper and behave
Our youngest of 2 sons is 5 years old and demonstrating really bad behaviour. This has been on going for 2 years. He has just started primary one and is a march birthday so one of the oldest in his ...
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How can I stop bad language in the home? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do we do when timeouts are not effective?
My children are aged 6-10. The consistent use of bad Language including the F word is way out of control. Things like ...
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Can you get a toddler to be nice to his friends?
My 2-year-old son is in daycare with several other boys. He seems to spend the most time with the two boys who are closest in age to him (and who are also the most consistent in attending).
One of ...
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Using a visual device to indicate good/bad behavior status for toddlers
My 3 year old has a habit of not eating her dinner. It's been our policy to tell her if she's not going to eat, she can just go to bed. Sometimes she's happy to do that, so we wanted to further ...
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Toddler: How to remove “over” attachment for Mom?
We have a 3 year old son. During the last few months we have observed him being strongly atached to his mom. Where ever he goes, he needs his mom. He cries like crazy at any time he notices she is ...
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What are some good distractions for an infant?
My 4 month old is nearly able to sit up on his own and has gotten rather bored with activity mats, swings, and hanging toys. The only things of his he still likes, are a bit too advanced to hold his ...
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How can i make sure my kids are not annoying? [closed]
I was flying today and there was a very annoying 2 year old in the seat in front of me. Her mother was on an ipad most of the flight and let her do whatever.
I thought to myself "Ill never have an ...
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At what age get a child to stop using pullups at night? [merged]
At what age get a child to stop using pullups at night? And how do you encourage a child and give them the confidence to try sleeping without one? I know one OK way is telling them it's Ok to wet the ...
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help with 4 year old passing gas all the time
My 4 year old has been really gassy lately, and has gotten the bad habit of farting loudly while laughing about it. After more then a few funny but embarassing moments, we tried to tell her how it was ...
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Getting a good diagnosis for possible mental issues?
To keep this short sweet and simple... I have a 8 year old who has been diagnosed with ADHD and has been on all the typical medications. I will admit they do help significantly but I still see things ...
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My 4.5yr-old girl is afraid of death. What should I do?
Last night my wife (as usual) was putting our 4.5yr-old baby girl to sleep. Our daughter becomes very chatty at that time and (especially in the presence of mom) expresses thoughts and things that ...
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infant behaviour after toddler illness
My baby girl (1.5 years) had good constant sleep and eat patterns; until she become ill. During illness her sleep/eat patterns changed a lot (and this is normal). But after recovering, she still do ...
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How can I get my three year old to stop sucking his fingers?
My three and a half year old son recently started sucking his fingers and sometimes his clothing. When I point it out to him he takes his fingers out of his mouth, but they are soon back in. I can't ...
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What are some ways to measure parental success in America? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you evaluate yourself as a parent?
Knowing our culture is important so lets say in American culture.
At the end of the day/year/stage of a child's life, how can ...
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Help troubled 5 year old boy on 2nd suspension for kindergarten
Can anyone give me any advise on how to help my 5 year old son. he is currently on his second suspension from kindergarten and nothing i do will stop his behaviour.
he has hurt other students and his ...
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Is there any harm to letting an infant's hair grow long?
My niece is 7 months old, and has long hair: around say 20-25cm. We are planning to cut her hair against our wishes because we think it could make it easier for her to catch a cough or cold. Is long ...
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3½ year old puts fingers in his ears when he is not comfortable
Whenever I take my 3 1/2 year old nephew to some unknown place or somewhere he is not comfortable, he puts his fingers in his ears as if he wants to avoid a loud noise.
Even if I take him to some ...
