Questions tagged [pre-schooler]
Age specific questions from about 3 years to about 5 years. Younger: toddler. Older: primary-schooler.
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How to stop my 4-year-old from having tantrums at preschool?
My 4-, soon to be 5-, year-old daughter has temper tantrums at preschool. She does not have them for me and has not had them for me for the past couple of years. I never fed her temper tantrums. It ...
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How to deal with a naughty 5-year-old nephew who is not being disciplined by his mother?
I live in a joint family with two of my uncles, and I have a very naughty five year old nephew who's a nuisance to the entire household.
We live in a flat and my nephew throws stuff out of the window ...
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What age to stop son from sleeping in same bed as Mother?
A 5 year old boy has been sleeping at night in the same bed as his single mother for basically his whole life, although he has his own bedroom and his own bed. They go to sleep together at the boy's ...
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Why is my 4-year-old child more aggressive now?
My child recently turned 4 late this summer. We've noticed he has been more aggressive lately.
Background:
I've pretend wrestled, boxed, and sword fought with my child before his third birthday. I ...
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Options when you feel your child is unsafe around another child?
We are in the awkward situation where new neighbors have moved in and it would seem they have a very different parenting style to our own, which in our opinion has begun to affect the safety and well ...
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How do I deal with my out of control 3-year-old?
My son will be 4 in a month, and he is very aggressive toward his brothers. He hits, kicks, bites them and takes their toys. He screams at my 1-year-old constantly when he touches anything or ...
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How to change a 4-year-old's violent and defiant behavior when his parents made him our responsibility?
My fiancé's nephew is 4 years old. He refuses to show respect and manners to adult figures; he constantly cusses (his favorite word is "wtf bitch", and he says it to me only.)
He also constantly ...
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How should I deal with a 3 year old storming off and sulking over minor incidents
I have three children, a five year old, a three year old and a 10 month old baby.
At the slightest thing, the three year old will get annoyed and storm off in a sulk. It could be anything from being ...
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What to do about my constantly crying 4-year-old step-daughter?
I have a just turned 4-year-old step daughter whose life I have been in for almost two years. In July, we went on vacation (myself, my 16-year-old son, one of his friends, my 12-year-old daughter, one ...
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Are my 5-year-old's behavioral problems at daycare normal? [duplicate]
My five-year-old son will be six in August. It's been a rollercoaster ride since he's been two. I'm feeling lost and failed as a parent. Me and his father are divorced since he's been two and we keep ...
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How to tackle my violent 3-year-old niece?
My 3-year-old niece sometimes behaves very violently. She so much enjoys hitting me with tab/doll/spoon/bottle or whatever she has. She hits very hard. I try to take the things away from her. But she ...
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Should I intentionally lose a game to make my daughter happy?
My daughter is very clever at playing chess. At 5 years of age, she could win against her mother and grandparents, but still couldn't beat me. She kept playing with me and tried to win, but always ...
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How to help our 3-year-old deal with continuously missing clothes and bad behavior from another kid in the nursery?
My 3-year-old daughter has been going to nursery for a year now. We live in Denmark.
Her clothes began disappearing in the day care (first a dress, then a jacket). And she was saying the name of one ...
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How should I address daycare reports of misbehaving 4.5-year-old?
Our 4.5-year-old has been in daycare since three months, and at the same daycare for nearly four years. His behavior at daycare has generally been a little up and down, mostly good days with some bad ...
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How to help a 3-year-old with vicious temper to express his emotions in a healthy way?
My three year old boy (the middle of three boys; older brother is 9, younger brother is almost 2) is smoldering with anger pretty often. He flies off the handle at little things. I've dealt with a ...
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What is the minimum amount of structure and rules that a child needs?
My wife and I have very different ways of handling our children (almost 3 and 5 years old). We agree about the rules we want to set, but we are complete opposite when it comes to implementing the ...
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How do we break the cycle of misbehavior when trying to discipline our 3-year-old?
My wife and I have gotten into a bad habit with our 3-year-old. When he misbehaves, sometimes he bites or otherwise physically assaults one of us in frustration, particularly when we are telling him ...
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What to do about my 3.5-year-old refusing to nap or sleep?
I am facing a very tough time with my 3.5-year-old who suddenly is refusing to nap in the afternoon or sleep at night. She used to nap at daycare but refuses to do so at home. Due to unavoidable ...
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5yr Old Has Trouble With Letters & Reading
My daughter is 5 years old (will be 6 at the end of February) and lately has wanted to learn to read. However, I've become a bit concerned because it seems as though she has absolutely no memory for ...
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How harmful is a kid's habit of crossing the toes?
Our 3-year-old son has developed a habit to cross his second toe underneath the big toe. He does it all the time and claims that it feels more comfortable like that. We worry that, in the long run, ...
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How to explain the "fun parent" phenomenon to a 5-year-old?
I'm a step-dad to 3 girls under 6. The eldest is still fairly enamored by bio-dad and while I won't go into the details; he's a man-child. The 3-year-old just follows the eldest at present, but I'm ...
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Does separating necessarily cause damage?
Me and my (ex)girlfriend have a 3 years old child.
He is an accidental child from a one night stand (where I was completely drunk and she was sober), but I didn't want to leave them alone, so I gave ...
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How best to help a language-delayed 3.5-year-old in a foreign language environment?
We are an English-speaking American family with 2 children, and have recently moved to Germany. The length of our stay is indefinite, and we've decided to try to integrate culturally and ...
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How to help a 4.5-year-old to no longer get "stuck" on minor minute details?
My 4.5-year-old often insists on certain things that seem to suggest he has some issues with flexibility. For example:
He wants the green straw not the red one
He wants to wear a different shirt to ...
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How to make our 3-year-old stop talking over every conversation around her?
Our 3-year-old daughter has been talking over any conversation in her vicinity for the past few months with increasing intensity. I can't talk for more than a minute or two to my wife when our ...
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How to help a 4-year-old who is afraid because she doesn't know yet what she will do when she's grown up?
I have a 4-year-old daughter. Yesterday, when I was changing my daughter in her PJ's to get ready for bed she started crying out of nowhere. This was very surprising because we don't get that very ...
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How should I teach my son to play video games?
My son will be 4 soon, and he already enjoys playing a few educational games on my tablet or his mother's phone (he plays maybe as much as an hour a week).
I'm a gamer, and we've tried playing a few "...
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What to do about my extremely possessive 3-year-old who doesn't mingle with other kids?
I'm the father of a 3-year-old boy. He is extremely possessive about his things and refuses to share with other kids. But he cries for things which other kids have. He also doesn't mingle with other ...
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Raising a bilingual kid. When should we introduce the majority language?
We are a family living in an English speaking country with a 3-year-old. My wife and I speak both French and English and we are committed to raise our kid bilingual in both languages. So far our ...
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How to encourage my 5-year-old who seems to be unusually interested in astronomy?
My almost 5-year-old son has developed a great interest in astronomy since last few months. I show him pictures of planets in books and videos on YouTube. He asks me to point out planets in the night ...
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How to teach civil rights to children who don't know about racism?
Martin Luther King Day is coming up, and I want to teach my children about him, especially since the civil rights movement is such a huge part of our local history here in Alabama. My dilemma is that ...
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How can I be more sympathetic towards my children when they are injured?
I have a 3-year-old son who throws tantrums a lot. I told him not to stand in front of the door as someone may open from the other side and injure him. Someone really opened the door and the door ...
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How to make our 3-year-old son stop being violent towards his older sister?
My daughter from a previous marriage was 8 when our son was born. Pretty much since the day he could move he has been hitting his sister with his hands or objects, biting, scratching etc. He is now 3 ...
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How can I help my preschooler develop empathy?
My 3.5-year-old preschooler is pretty book-smart, but is quite emotionally immature for his age. This has led to a frequent, difficult situation for us.
He'll be acting out a bit - say, not wanting ...
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3.5yr old pre-schooler cannot deal with frustration
Our 3.5 yr old (will be 4 in July) son has a real difficulty handling frustration to the point that it is driving me and my wife insane. Hardly a day goes by where we don't both end up in tears, ...
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Is it normal for a 3-year-old to repeat the question before answering?
My 3 years and 3 months old son has speech delay. He repeats the question and then answers (mainly choice questions). At age 3, if I asked him any question ('this or that'), he simply repeated ('this ...
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How can I help my kids to sleep comfortably (and safely) on an overnight drive?
Asking this one anonymously, I don't want the police coming round to arrest me!
In a few weeks, we've got a long drive to go on vacation. Because our youngest is pretty unbearable on long car ...
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How to help a 4.5-year-old understand why she'll move back to the "little kids school"?
My 4.5-year-old daughter moved to the 'big kids school' this year to attend pre-k. The school goes through eighth grade and so is perceived by my kids as the 'big kids school'. Prior to that she went ...
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How to explain scientific concepts to a curious 3.5-year-old?
I have a 3.5-year-old who seems to be a bright spark (I know every parent thinks this :). She is asking:
What is water made of? (answered rain)
What is air made of? (answered gas like steam coming ...
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How to make my 3.5-year-old learn at home?
My 3.5-year-old recently started school. He never shows willingness to learn anything from me, never colours with me or does tracing or learns poems. I just take down everything needed and sit with ...
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How do I deal with my pre-schooler's over tired behavior after school?
Obviously four years old is too young to diagnose ADD; however, my daughter has always exibited ADD symptoms and it would not be surprising if one of our children has ADD as it runs in the family.
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How to discern whether a 3-year-old's repetitive hand movements are normal or not?
My 3-year-old son has a habit of holding his two hands tightly closed near his mouth and biting teeth so as to show he's excited. He performs this action only when he plays with toys. It comes ...
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When the length of a commute can be recognized as not acceptable for a kindergartner?
I have learned of kids with crazy long commutes in their school bus for public schools. I'm surprised of having such longs commutes (1 hour) for a 4-to-5 year old starting kindergarten.
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How to help my 4-year-old get back to sleep in the middle of the night?
My 4-year-old son gets up every night to go to the bathroom. When he goes back to bed, he has trouble falling back asleep and will either talk, sing or play until he does and that sometimes takes ...
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How to care for my 3.5-year-old's decaying teeth?
Since more than a year, one tooth of my 3.5-year-old daughter has started to deteriorate. Recently, two more teeth are getting affected. This is due to not getting her teeth brushed up properly and ...
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How to deal with 5-year-old who suddenly doesn't sleep through the night?
My daughter has slept through the night since she was 6 months old but suddenly, at age 5, she started waking up in the middle of the night and seems a bit scared (she started turning the lights on). ...
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How to motivate a 3.5-year-old to use the potty when she knows how to, but is strongly opposed to it?
My god daughter is about 3.5 years old. She has demonstrated she is aware of when she needs to pee/poop and if naked will ask for a pullup to be put on just so she can use it. I believe if she ...
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Can putting a one year old baby in a playschool for around 7 hours, daily, cause any psychological issues to the baby?
I and my partner both work in software companies. There are only two of us living together.
So, if we put the baby in a playschool for around 7 hours, daily, after he is one year old, can it cause ...
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Preparing and handling 1-month absence of father for 3.5 year-old
What is the best way to prepare a 3.5 year-old for a 1-month absence of his father?
The child has a very good and intimate relationship to both mother and father. The closer the departure comes the ...
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How unusual is it for a 3.5-year-old to scratch his own face and draw blood?
A 3.5-year-old child we know was sat down for misbehaving and then scratched his own face drawing blood. We wondered how common this was and how it may be stopped from happening again.
How unusual is ...