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Mar 28 |
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How do you handle a conflict between your child and a teacher? Hi, @LRM, and welcome to the site! As you can see, I've made some fairly significant edits to your answer. I formatted it make it clearer, and also removed the parts that didn't seem to directly address the question (we maintain a strict question/answer format, and some of your comments were deviating into the realm of "discussion", which is off-topic here). I invite you to check out our faq, look around at other questions and answers, and edit your answer here further if you'd like to expand on some of your earlier comments in the context of suggesting strategies for parents. |
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Mar 27 |
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Have studies shown whether toys that feature guns or other weapons prominently promote violent behavior? @Ana I mean any behavior that can be construed as negative. I don't consider pretending to shoot a toy gun as negative, but I would consider hitting or other form of aggression against another child (or adult), whether during the course of playing with these particular toys or not, to be negative behavior. |
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Mar 27 |
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Have studies shown whether toys that feature guns or other weapons prominently promote violent behavior? Please see this meta answer for details of what bounties will be awarded, when, and how! |
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Mar 26 |
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Punishment for stealing? @Walkerneo I'd definitely just hand her back the money. Adding additional conditions will only make it worse. Being consistent does send a positive message, but demonstrating that you can acknowledge and accept when you've made a mistake, and correct that mistake, sends an even stronger message. |
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Mar 26 |
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Why does my mother expect me to behave like others and herself? +1. It may very well come to strict boundaries, as you describe. I've wound up in the same situation with both of my parents, as well. For one (they're long divorced), the boundaries required a long period of enforced separation, but resulted in much-improved relations. For the other, unfortunately, there is absolutely no acknowledgement that I have any rights to set borders, and therefore contact between us is sparse, and as brief as I can make it. |
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Mar 26 |
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Punishment for stealing? Absolutely agree. The $100 reward for running 3 miles has been earned, and she should have it. The punishment for stealing (whatever that winds up being) has also been earned, and she should have it as well. They need to stay separate. |
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Mar 25 |
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How do I tell my parents I'm no longer Christian? Hi @user4109, and welcome to the site! This looks like a great resource. However, we try to make sure that answers here are relatively self-contained. Answers that simply refer users to other webpages are something we try to avoid. Would you be willing to edit the answer to include specific advice from the site you linked that is applicable to the OP? That way your answer will still contain meaningful and helpful information, should the link address of the article change, or the site move or shut down. |
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Mar 23 |
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2 1/2 year old toddler being sick after drinking full fat milk It sounds like perhaps you're asking us to help diagnose why she is getting sick? If so, I'm afraid that is off topic for us. If you're asking for something other than a diagnosis, please edit your question to clarify, and flag it for moderator attention so we can re-open it. Thanks! |
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Mar 22 |
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My child has chickenpox, am I infectious? @Martin I added several sources to the existing answer. In the future, please feel free to flag for moderator attention any question that provides unreferenced claims that you are concerned about, and we'll take a look at it. Thanks! |
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Mar 22 |
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My child has chickenpox, am I infectious? I have made some changes to this answer to incorporate reputable sources. Some of the information was changed as a result of the information I found. I also removed the part about breastfeeding passing on immunity, as I could not source that. If you can find a source for the claim, please feel free to add it back in. |
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Mar 22 |
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My child has chickenpox, am I infectious? @Martin Agreed. Answers should be backed up with either references or personal experience. |
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Mar 19 |
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Should we cut our infant's hair? Related (from skeptics.se). |
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Mar 15 |
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How do you respond to a teenager who has started to smoke? @philosodad As I said, this is a hypothetical, so if it helps you post an answer, decide for yourself whether a parent gives the teenager money :) |
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Mar 15 |
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How do you respond to a teenager who has started to smoke? @philosodad It is entirely possible to answer this without knowing the specific relationship (in this case it is a hypothetical). Granted, not every solution will work for every teenager, but a good answer can apply to a wide range of situations. |
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Mar 15 |
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How do you respond to a teenager who has started to smoke? @philosodad I smoked before 18, did not get an allowance (I worked), and had little difficulty in purchasing cigarettes (despite it being illegal). Granted, packs were a fraction of what they cost now.... |
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Mar 14 |
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council says my 16 year old daughter and 1 year old daughter should share a bedroom Related. |
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Mar 14 |
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How to get toddler to eat eggs? +1 It seems like a flip answer, but I think there's more than a grain of truth in this! |
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Mar 14 |
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Does daycare mentally damage children under three? @MegCoates The sociologist making the claim is basing this off of seeing a rate of Daycare enrollment in Sweden rising to about 95% after daycares became popular in the 1980's, and then a subsequent decrease of education levels, and an increase in "psychological disorders". It seems some pretty weak "science" to me.... |
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Mar 14 |
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Does daycare mentally damage children under three? Looking at the article, it seems that Himmelstrand is basing this claim off of correlating nation-wide academic performance and rates of disorder with a general increase in prevalence of daycare enrollment. This is pure correlation, and even Himmelstrand places the underlying cause on the parents, rather than the daycare: "It is because daycare means parents have lost a grip on their responsibilities. They cannot set limits." |
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Mar 14 |
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Does daycare mentally damage children under three? The problem with this type of research is that it is impossible (or at least reprehensibly unethical) to do actual controlled scientific research. Instead, research is restricted to broad statistics that cannot distinguish correlation from causation. Even if studies were found that showed children sent to daycare are far more likely to have "social problems" (however that might be defined), daycare may simply be a symptom of the same underlying problem, rather than the cause (i.e. maybe the same factors that make kids more likely to have problems make parents more likely to use daycare). |
