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We need some ideas for handling our almost three year old Nicky and our new baby. He seems delighted with her, but he's so enthusiastic . . .
Our three year old interrupts me whenever I try to make a call . . .
If I had a magic wand for parents, it would be this: daily special time.
Our three year old boy is a delight--most of the time. But more often than we like, he gets rough with us and his friends. He’s been known to hit, push, whack--you name it.
Our three-year-old used to be quite bold. In the past few months, however, we've noticed that he seems fearful in a lot of situations . . .
In just a few weeks, a new group of five-year-olds will be starting kindergarten, their first step into the world of "real school". Even when a child has been in group child care for many years, the threshold of the kindergarten door is a passageway to a new kind of relationship between the child and his teachers . . .
Our son Max is three. He has been toilet trained for months. He uses the potty or the toilet at home and at pre-school with hardly any help. But anywhere else he almost always wets his pants . . .
Our three-year-old Jamie is sweet and bright and pretty. Her only “flaw” is that in between playing or talking or running around, she’s likely to be sitting somewhere sucking her thumb. . .
Sometimes I don’t know who gets angrier—me or my three-year-old! At first I might be nice, then I get irritated, then I explode!
My neighbor just told me that after three months of kindergarten, her son has been identified as “at risk” for passing! Now I'm worried about my own child . . .
I am so tired of struggling with my children. I know there aren't magic wands for parents, but isn't there any way to make life a little easier?
When I take my three-year-old to a park or a special place--like a kids' museum--I try to make him behave just the way he would at school or at home. But what about other people's kids? If they grab things out of my child's hands…
Help! Every four year old I know has a problem with clothes--mine won't wear anything but sweat pants, his best friend has to wear green, and the girl next door wants to try on her idea of cute outfits every morning while we're waiting…
Our three year old has a medical condition that will require him to have a number of visits to his doctor’s office and the hospital outpatient clinics. He has had, and will have, lots of procedures and exams and we are dreading it…
Our four year old little daughter Henrietta has developed a very irritating, whiny way of talking to us. It's driving us nuts--we keep telling her to stop, and we try to ignore her or tell her to ask us in a pleasant voice, but she doesn't stop…
In the past year several people close to us have died. We have a three-year-old son who has started to ask us if we are going to die and whether he is going to die. We have tried to avoid burdening him with the problems of adult life…
Our three-year-old daughter Katie has begun to stutter. Up until now she's been very clear in her speech. She stutters the most when she's excited or trying to explain something to us. She'll say, "I saw . . .I saw . . .I saw . .", then pause, and then start again…
Our daughter Claire is four and has been toilet trained for over a year. However, she only likes to have a bowel movement at home. At first, this wasn't a problem. Then we started noticing that if we were away from home at her usual time…
We have a delightful, high energy four year old boy who has always been a handful , but we’ve never worried that there was anything the matter—we just figured that he was one of those kids who had lots of energy…
Our wonderful son is going to turn three years old this summer, and I am already dreading the date. Well, not the date of his birthday, but the date of the party. It’s not that I don’t want to celebrate, but I don’t think I’m up to…
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