Age specific questions from about 11 years to about 13 years. Also known as "tweens". Younger: middle-childhood. Older: teen.
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My 11-year-old daughter still asks me to zip her jacket
My daughter is now 11 years old, but still asks me to zip her jacket. This really worries me because she can do it herself and is otherwise independent. She even asks me when her friends are around. ...
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2answers
330 views
11 year old grandson holding in his poop
My 11 year old grandson holds in his poop to the point he will pack his butt with toilet paper and when he can't hold it any more it comes out in the toilet paper . Then he tries to clean up the mess ...
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4answers
249 views
How to handle an 11-year-old boy who doesn't study anymore and reacts aggressively towards me?
My 11-year-old son is now in class 5. Until class 4, he was good in studies, scoring around 90 %, but from this academic year he has not been showing interest in studies. He does not complete his ...
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3answers
763 views
How to react to an eleven-year-old sneaking out at night to look at the stars?
During the holidays, two kids from two families that we are friends with snuck out at night to look at the stars. The mother of one twelve year old boy reacted with an outburst of anger and severely ...
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5answers
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An incident happened at school and child didn't (want to) tell the parent
I'm asking for a friend of mine, who's the parent. Her child is 12 years old.
Yesterday, at school, the child's classmate was horribly beaten up by a teacher. And I mean horrible. It ended with the ...
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1answer
266 views
Is a Special Ed teacher allowed to tell regular teachers to instruct their students (6th graders) not to hug a child anymore? [closed]
My child is a boy in the 6th grade. Upon entering middle school, he acquired an all new administration and a new Special Ed teacher. At the end of the previous year, I was told by the Superintendent ...
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1answer
211 views
12 year old daughter only misbehaves for her parents
I have a 12 year old daughter who behaves for everyone except for my wife and I. Everyone else that encounters her thinks she is just an angel, but at home she is argumentative, talks back, has a ...
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4answers
434 views
My 11-year-old hates writing as do I. How to provide help to him writing a school essay without forcing him to do what he doesn't want to?
I raise my 11-year-old son by myself. He needs to write a small essay about his first day at school and I don't even know how to help him. He hates writing and is in love with math, so do I. I don't ...
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1answer
194 views
How do I stop my little brother from throwing things?
My brother is usually very nice to me, but sometimes he acts out. I can't be harsh with him because he is not a mature. He gets in a habit of throwing things.
What can I do to get him to stop ...
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1answer
174 views
Bad attitude from my 12yr old
My son has a bad attitude, and I can't even have a discussion with him without him kicking off. I try my hardest to not get cross but sometimes it's so hard not to. The way he is being is splitting my ...
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2answers
516 views
11 daughter likes a girl
My 11 year old daughter came to me and told me that she thinks she has feelings for another girl. She explained it as she has the same feelings for this girl that she has had for a boy all school year....
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3answers
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Is this a situation in which I should push for intervention or should I let it go?
Background
I am a mid-older teen living at home and preparing to go to college in about a year. I generally keep to myself and only interact with my parents on the most essential topics so I may be ...
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3answers
820 views
My 12-year-old daughter is not appreciative
My daughter just turned 12. She is the only child for me and my husband, but we both have other (grown) children from the first marriages. Our daughter is like an angel to us and we love her beyond ...
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1answer
757 views
Is it appropriate for boys aged 7 and 11 to go shirtless at home in front of 7 year old girl?
I am divorced with 2 boys and my significant other has a girl. My boys are 11 and 7, and she is 7. What brought me here is me not understanding certain things such as, my significant other asks me to ...
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2answers
445 views
My almost 12-year-old daughters threw tantrums and screamed outside the house
I’m a part-time working mom and I have twin daughters. They’ll be 12 years old next month. My question is is it normal, even when they’re almost 12 years old, to sometimes scream and cry like crazy ...
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4answers
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My 11-year-old daughter's temper is getting out of control
I need help with my daughter.
She screamed in my face, she tries to block my way when I try to leave the room, she's tried to pull my hair, and she ripped a shirt I was wearing trying to keep me in ...
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4answers
1k views
How to address a child having a racist friend?
I have a son who is 10. He plays online games with a small group of other kids of very similar ages. I know who they are, and I know the parents, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that we are ...
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1answer
954 views
How can I help my 11 year old daughter with encopresis?
My daughter has was diagnosed with encopresis at age 7. She's had bad constipation since 5, but I thought it was a phase. She cries when she has a "flare up" as she calls it. I can see the pain in her ...
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3answers
449 views
How to remain unaffected by my son's emotions?
My son is ten years old now and I feel that over the past year or so he has become increasingly irritable and prone to angry outbursts. He is easily frustrated by the smallest things and tears up and ...
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6answers
771 views
Should my 12-year son see, how I fail?
I have a 12-year old son. I don't live with his mother, but I try to do as much as possible to help him grow up a happy and healthy adult.
Couple of months ago I learned he had problems with maths ...
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4answers
241 views
Forcing my sister/child to do any activities outside from school. How to approach a child differently in order to get their interest?
My mom and I are having a lot of struggle with my little sister. She is 12 years old and all of her life we have had a lot of trouble to try and get her into any activity at all. Currently she is in ...
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3answers
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How to motivate my extremely lazy 12 year-old?
My 12 year-old son is a good kid, but he is extremely unmotivated to do literally anything unless I or his mother are constantly riding him the whole time. As a young child, he was "easy" to raise ...
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11answers
43k views
12 year old boy is totally out of control
My seventh grader screamed "Fuck you" at me last night. I am at the end of my rope. His behavior is so bad I feel like I need to send him away to a boarding school or something because he is causing ...
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3answers
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How to figure out which of my children is lying to me? [duplicate]
I'm looking for advice on how to determine which of my children is lying. I have 4 kids, 12, 12, 8, 6.
About once a week, something bad will happen, (this last incident, somebody poured a bowl of ...
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6answers
3k views
My 13-year-old daughter is talking to a 20-year old girl on the internet. Is this normal?
She’s not very open so I have no idea whether their conversations are age-appropriate. She is a really intelligent and responsible kid, and she's definitely smart enough not to give out any personal ...
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3answers
751 views
Older boy showing inappropriate video to younger child
My 12 year old nephew, N, took my 9 year old son aside and showed him a video of ISIS beheading a victim. I am just flabbergasted that N would do that. Interestingly N did not show the video to my ...
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5answers
346 views
Children and Cell phones
How young is too young to have a cell phone? My 11 year old spends weekends away from mom and I need to keep in touch.
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4answers
2k views
What to do about my out-of-control 12-year-old daughter?
My 12-year-old daughter is a good kid. But when something doesn't go her way she calls me a bitch and cusses a lot. I take her phone away when she does that.
She can be so good, but it's like turning ...
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12answers
25k views
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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2answers
406 views
What to do about my 12-year-old son who doesn't show interest in anything?
I have a 12-year-old son. In the last 2 years, he has shown no interest in doing anything, not listening, not hanging out with friends, etc. He doesn't like cleaning up behind himself, is just not ...
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11 year old leaking or wetting pants while laughing [duplicate]
My 11 year old daughter has "leaked" or wet her pants (small amount) while laughing hard. She has become irrationally fearful to the point where she quit soccer and doesn't want to do anything where ...
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9answers
15k views
Neighbor's child is trying to spend all her time with us
Background
My wife and I recently moved into a town-house apartment in a large complex. We have a Husky pup that my wife walks twice a day (she's a stay-at-home) and the dog attracts lots of ...
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1answer
274 views
My 9-year-old son tries to force himself into a group of friends after being rejected and is pushed over. How to help him build character?
I have a 9-year-old son. He is a lovely, sweet person with a great fondness for his friends. He is emotional, emphatic, smart and overall a nice kid.
Today I learned that he is getting himself into ...
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6answers
589 views
How can I help my 11-year old boy create his first videogame?
Today I sent my child a link to a report about a boy, who
has created a commercially viable videogame. My son replied
that he may intend to do something similar.
I asked him about the bottleneck of ...
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2answers
376 views
Restless fingers while speaking
It's very hard for me to have a relaxed talk with my son - 12 years old.
He does not like talking and if he does he is playing with his fingers.
This drives my crazy and it makes me afraid. I tell ...
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1answer
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teens nagging at each others
The kids of my GF, 14 and 11 respectively, have that annoying tendancy to nag at each other when night time is coming. Teen girl likes to pout and teenage boy thinks himself as some kind of prima ...
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1answer
1k views
How to talk to my 13 year old son about inapropriate comments
Recently an issue has arisen with my 13 year old son and a girl he was "dating". While they were dating, I was one of those parents that always went through his phone and read messages.
I was ...
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0answers
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I'm 11 Years old, scared of my parents and I'm considering running away [closed]
I'm 11 years old, I live with my father, my mother and my 2 cats. When I was little life was great. We had so much fun together, me and my parents, but about 2 years ago things took a turn for the ...
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2answers
515 views
Is it possible to control iPad message language without my 10 year old daughter hating me?
A few weeks ago I found my 10yo daughter using inappropriate language on her iPad. As it was the first time I caught her swearing, and the message was more in her own defense of another's bullying so ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
463 views
What to do if your threaten be your older sister! [closed]
So I was in my home doing nothing but making some updates to my wifi network when my sister came and something happened between my sister,mother and I my sister 17 year old and me 13 year old went out ...
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4answers
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Do I move my son to a new school?
I am the single dad of a wonderful son. We have recently moved to a new house only a few miles away from where we previously lived, but it is in another school zone. So I have been debating moving him ...
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1answer
513 views
My friend opened up to me about depression [closed]
So I'm 13 years old and in 7th grade. I have this friend that I met this year. She's been a really good friend to me but I wouldn't describe her a best friend. There has recently been some drama over ...
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11answers
15k views
Appropriate age for a Swiss Army Knife (male, age 11, UK based)
My son watched the Megafactories documentary on the Swiss Army Knife and is enamored with getting one for Christmas. He is 11 and we are in the UK regulatory sphere.
He proposes to use the knife ...
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3answers
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CISV: should I trust?
CISV is a seasoned organization which stages (among other activities) villages: 28 days-long exchanges for children aged 10 coming from all the world.
I am considering letting my child take part in ...
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How to make our 12-year-old son become more serious about his studies, punctual and less playful?
I have a 12-year-old son. He is intelligent, but will not sit and study. We always get complaints from school that he is playful and not serious.
He always needs to play, especially football.
When ...
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1answer
284 views
What can I do to increase the chance that my children will talk to me when disturbed?
Background
My older children have mobile devices, and while they agree to allow us access to them and installation of software to permit us to review how they use the device with them, they also work ...
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1answer
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12 y/o daughter gives one-word answers to every question
My 12 y/o daughter used to be very open. A great communicator. Very warm and gregarious.
A few months ago (right around the time her body started changing) she gradually started changing her pattern. ...
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5answers
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My 11 year old Granddaughter told her Father today shes a lesbian
My Granddaughter told her Dr. and Father she is a lesbian, and asked to talk to a counselor. I'm wondering at this age, do they really know for sure or because they hang with girls who think they are, ...
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1answer
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11-year-old with sleeping problems
My 11-year-old son has trouble sleeping alone, because of what he calls "nightmares". I don't think they are sleeping nightmares, but rather overactive imagination causing frightening thoughts while ...
