New answers tagged pre-teen
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There's a few issues here.
1) Your daughter being bullied at school. That needs to be stopped. I don't know where you are, what your schools are like, or what options are available. In my experience, the attitude of education professionals varies greatly, so I can't foresee what response you will get (or have already gotten.)
2) You daughter's lack of ...
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Your challenge here seems to be in striking the balance between managing your relationship to your child and catering to their safety and well being, which I expect will be an increasingly common topic as your child is slowly turning into an adolescent.
There is always a risk in getting involved with someone you've never met. It sounds like you're fairly ...
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From personal experience, when I went to the elementary school I got bullied a lot because I didn't fit in. High school was little better for me. But thanks to online gaming I came into contact with people like me.
I met my best friend 14 years ago online, and in 4 months I will be there for her wedding. And I can personally not imagine a life without her ...
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I don't even watch R-rated films myself, because I don't like how they make me feel, and I won't let my son watch PG-13 films until he turns 13, which will be in a few months. Nevertheless, he gets seriously into the characters of movies he has never watched, and is not even aware of the basic plot. He is constantly asking for toys from those movies.
I'm ...
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I offer toys to kids based on their and my personal preferences (not backed by research studies). Just like any other toys, Alien-based toys can be suitable for healthy playing for some 8-14-year-old children and not suitable for others. The short answer is "it depends" on the child.
Fictional material with high levels of gore and violence is generally ...
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It appears that the title question and the body of your post are asking about two totally different things.
To answer the title question: no, probably not. Subjecting small children the kinds of violence and gore depicted in such movies is inappropriate in our society. It will certainly have an impact on their lives, though I am not a psychologist, so I'd ...
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Sure they can. It depends on how the parents raise them and their level of interactivity with the subject.
My older daughter was about 2 or 3 when I started telling her my own recollection of the story of the predator. Yes, that Schwarzenegger film. Because she saw a painting of it in the trees in a mural I painted in her room and asked about it. From that ...
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