Questions tagged [emotional-well-being]
Emotional quality that a person experiences. Enhanced emotional well-being is associated with feeling good, judging life positively, and being low on [anxiety], [depression], [fears], [anger], etc.
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how to get rid of angry outbursts in a healthy way
Our son, 3.75 years old, gets frustrated fairly easily (e.g. zipper gets stuck when he dresses, tower of building blocks collapses unintentionally). Often this results in him stomping and/or throwing ...
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How to best prepare a pre-school child for surgery and associated procedures?
My child of four years (and eight months) is soon having surgical treatment. I want to prepare them in the best way possible for the trip to the hospital and best manage any distress around the ...
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8-year-old daughter is obsessed with books - escaping from something?
My daughter is 8 years old and is reading constantly.
She wakes up and reads and I need to call her to breakfast 10 times (even though she herself devised a schedule for our morning routine)
she ...
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6 year old doesn't wish to watch movies with sad and action scenes on television
My 6 year old not is interested in watching even animated moral stories. Now in online class, one of his class mates plays some fairy tales once a week, but every time he would start to cry.
Even ...
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19 yr old son with a prosthetic left foot
My son had a major work accident over a year ago which ended in his left foot being amputated. He says part of him died so he feels dead thru and thru. Suicide is big in his mind. How , as his mom, ...
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How to tell my son to uninvite a friend without lying or giving the real reason?
I'm a single mother raising a son. My son is 17 years old and is planning a small week-long vacation to Las Vegas. He is bringing just his close gay male friends from high school on the trip. My son ...
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Weaning off Tube Feeding
Sorry if this has already been asked. I'd like to research more but this is somewhat time sensitive.
We're trying to get our precious newborn weaned off of syringe tube feeding. It's been the "...
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How to teach child to recognize his emotions and deal with them on his own
I'm currently just starting to learn this for myself. Growing up in a neglectful and abusive home I never learned to recognize my emotions. Just to surpress everything. This is why I also have a hard ...
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How to know whether I am giving too much attention to my child?
I have heard that getting too little attention from parents can result in personality disorders in adult life and getting too much attention from parents can result in child be an attention seeker as ...
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Kid opens up during Corona, make it last
After 7 weeks of Corona-lockdown, staying at home and home-schooling our 6-year old, he is opening up.
He has told me what goes on at school, that he is often angry and how he vents. He has told me ...
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How to ask a child what's wrong, without suggesting things to worry about?
So tonight at bedtime, my child was wanting someone to stay with them (until they fell asleep). We have had a busy few days so maybe they were just wanting some quality time.
However I am a little ...
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Separation between me and my stepson
I have a six-year-old stepson. Today, his parents sued me in order to take their son back.
How do I explain the situation to him? Note that I adopted him at age 3, so he probably does not remember ...
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My 15-year-old son is gay. How do I express my feelings about this?
Recently, my 15-year-old son has been acting very strange around the house, which isn't like him at all. Whenever we try to talk to him all we get back is "yes I'm fine" or "Go away", which really ...
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How to help my 2.5-year-old daughter take her medicine when she refuses to?
My 2.5-year-old daughter has an ear infection. She has been really healthy her entire life, and this is the first time she's gotten sick enough she needs to take any medicine in a strict schedule. ...
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What to do when my 3.5-year-old says “I don’t love you, I love mommy.”?
Recently, my 3.5-year-old daughter started saying, “I don’t love you, I love mommy.” Also the same phrase with "like" instead of "love".
It’s killing me to hear her say that. But, I know she’s little,...
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Should I call my sad, almost 5-year-old on holidays with grandparents and his sister?
I have an almost 5-year-old son and an almost 3-year-old daughter. My children are on holidays with grandparents far away for a week. They had the same holidays last year and it went smoothly, but ...
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How to teach my people-pleasing daughter to balance between helping others and accounting for her own needs?
My younger daughter is a people pleaser. She always wants everyone else to be happy, often to her and her older sister's emotional detriment. She lets people take advantage of her generosity, buying ...
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How to determine if I am pushing my child too hard?
A common problem I've seen with children is that they seem to be pushed too hard and become anxious and stressed. As a soon-to-be parent, in which both of us parents are highly educated and high-...
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How to help a 5-year-old deal with negative emotions?
My 5-year-old gets angry and frustrated in situations like:
losing at a board game
being told he is wrong about something
being told not to yell 'You are so fat!' at a teacher with the explanation it ...
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My 4-year old son - in preschool full time - only wants to stay home without kids in his free time. Should we be concerned?
My son is 4 1/2. He's been in daycare and preschool since he was 6 months old. As such, he has been surrounded by other kids every weekday for his whole life. As an introvert, I totally feel ...
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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 do i deal with the urge to laugh when my daughter cries?
I have an infant daughter who cries a lot (naturally; she's three months old) and most of the time I find it more funny than anything else. I feel pretty awful about this but I think it's just due to ...
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Our 6-year-old is talking down to herself. Why would she do that and should we be worried?
I have a 6-year-old daughter who is wonderful and basically your normal 6-year-old. One behavior that she has been exhibiting that scares her mother and me a bit is that she will occasionally talk ...
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How to instill sensitivity in kids?
I am new to the site and don't know if this question exactly falls into the domain of this site.
We have a group of volunteers in our university who go to a school in a nearby village to teach. Some ...
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How to not to feel igry for children's behavior? [closed]
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Approaching strangers in public places and talk to them also if they show hints they do not want to
Going to nursery school in pyjama
This makes parents feeling so much igry and full of ...
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Why am I hurt by my toddler saying she wanted to throw all her toys in the garbage?
My 2-year-old was throwing a fit tonight. I got home from work and my father said my daughter would not put her toys away. My daughter told me she wanted to throw all her toys in the garbage. I don't ...
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How can I help my children who just found out my wife left us?
My wife and I have been married for coming up close to 14 years now. We have 3 children, aged 12, 9 and 5. Recently, she started seeing another man and called it quits on me and the kids. She moved ...
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Possibly long-lasting trauma as a newborn?
Do you know of any studies on effects of traumatic events on newborns? Can they be long-lasting? If yes, when would it make sense to think of some help (e.g., therapy)?
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Three days after ...
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Seeking research on possible outcomes for children who are overly criticized
I did a search & can't find what I need. I need reading material on what the likely outcome is for a child who has been overly criticized.
Someone very close to me has 3 kids, 2 are grown. It ...
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How should we support 16 year old step sister who ran away from home
We're in Canada, if that's relevant.
My partner and I live by ourselves (late 20's), and my partner's 16 year old step-sister has recently fled an emotionally abusive home life (no physical abuse so ...
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I don't like my mom and she is coming to stay with me, how to prevent it or handle in the best way?
My mother used to taunt me for not being a good student and my stutter, maybe that was her way of taking our her frustration, in my senior secondary school she took it so far that I had to think about ...
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How to handle day care provider that tells baby to stop crying?
I went to pick up my 5-month-old son at day care today. He attends a small day care center with a separate infant room.
When I arrived, I heard one of the babies crying; she was lying on the floor. ...
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How to talk to my 6-year-old son about his biological father?
My husband and I have been married for 10 years, and we have three kids. He is not the biological father of my oldest son, who is 6. I am confused about the best way to talk to my son about his ...
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Should bad feelings of a child not be mirrored? [duplicate]
Considering: Why is trying to talk children out of how they feel a bad idea?
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My son started kindergarten and doesn't like writing his name. How should I think about this?
I do not agree with the ...
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How can I help my 7-year-old deal with anxiety?
My son suffers from anxiety and is constantly worrying about all sorts of different things. It can be quite debilitating causing him to get worked up and upset easily and he often has trouble getting ...
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Should I try to reconnect my 16-year-old daughter with her father?
My 16-year-old daughter has not been seeing her father since we divorced (in 2008 on the basis of infidelity (from him)). We live cities apart.
She is against of having any relations with him. I was ...
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How to deal with an unsupportive parent
TL;DR My mother isn't supportive and she doesn't seem to understand me. My family life is miserable and I don't know what to do about my situation. I know I should probably see a counselor but my ...
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If a baby is accidentally dropped by a parent, does the baby lose trust in the parent?
This should not have happened but it did happen. I'm the mother to a 14-month-old girl. We were going for our usual morning walk in our garden. Suddenly I felt something fall on me from above. Without ...
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What to do with my pre-teen daughter who has been out of control since a severe accident?
Last December we were victims of a vehicle accident that killed my husband and left my son severely brain damaged. My daughter who is 12 and will be 13 in couple months was the only one in our vehicle ...
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What are effective strategies against social phobia?
Our 5 years old (in a month) daughter has excessive apprehension about being immerged in new environments with people (especially children) she doesn't know. Basically, she will cry her heart out ...
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Why is my child so scared?
My 5 year old will not go into a room alone by herself... She won't go to the bathroom alone or even play in the next room alone... She freaks out if you leave the room.... It's so bad she will follow ...
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How can I help my 7 year old overcome his fear of playground equipment?
My 7 year old seems to be afraid of a lot of playground equipment. It's not the height so much as I believe that he's afraid of falling and getting hurt. (He'll climb up tall stairs and go down tall ...
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My wife is under treatment for depression and just had a traumatic labor. What can I do to help her?
My wife gave birth two weeks ago. It was all very traumatic and it has certainly taken its toll on her mood. She suffers from depression anyway, and now I am concerned that she is probably suffering ...
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Should I worry About My 10yo Nephew's Interest in Violence?
I have a 10yo nephew who is obsessed with violence. It's all he talks about. He asks me and my father things like;
If I had a gun and you had a knife, could you kill me?
If I start doing weights now, ...
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Should I be concerned about this poem?
My daughter (11) chose this poem to take to school and present to her class:
Sometimes when I'm alone I cry because I'm on my own
The tears are bitter and warm
They flow with life, but take no ...
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How can I get my 2.5 year old to go to sleep without me?
She used to be fine going to sleep by herself. Then around Thanksgiving, nothing changed mind you, she began refusing to sleep unless my husband or I was in the room. We have tried changing her ...
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6 Year old son behavior problems at school and now at home
My son is 6, 7 next month. He's having a lot of problems at school.
At the beginning of the year he was getting tallies and notes sent home because he was hitting, pushing, kicking other kids at ...
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How to deal with a preteen's sudden unhealthy obsession?
Say a preteen girl is going through an unhealthy obsession. I know many people go through a phase of extreme obsession with something at some point, whether it's with a celebrity, a school crush, a ...
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5-year old goes to pieces when talking about her/seeing pictures from when she was younger
My 5 year old daughter (our oldest child, we also have a 2 year old son) is normally a very happy child, although can be very sensitive. She is getting better controlling her emotions but one trigger ...
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What to do about an 8-year-old who will suffer silently until a breaking point?
We have an 8-year-old son. He has no intellectual or developmental disabilities. However, we are concerned about the following. He will not speak up in protest for himself. For example:
He tripped ...
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