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My Daughter and Her "Best Friend" Won't Stop Fighting
Asked by K.E. from Seattle
on February 8, 2007
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My daughter is almost 5 years old and so is her best friend. They have been at the same daycare together for about 3 years now. Almost everyday, when I pick up my girl...
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- i sounds like time for a "Playdate". What I mean by that is that is the four of you need to get together and talk. Maybe there is something going on in the other girls...
- It sounds to me like they are more like sisters than friends. Me and my sister are 20 months apart and we NEVER got along growing up. Even now we still get into it eve...
- My daughter is going through the same thing with her best friend and neighbor. She is in second grade and met her friend in KG. Her mother and I are good friends als...
4 Year Old Always Says "I'm a Good Boy"
Asked by C.P. from Los Angeles
on January 28, 2011
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Hi there... this is totally new to me... so please be patient. I have recently started babysitting my 4 year old godson. My issue is that he is CONSTANTLY saying thing...
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- It sounds to me as though he is self-soothing. He may be insecure about being punished at your house and his parents' discipline techniques may be totally different th...
- It may be irritating, but it's absolutely normal. He doesn't see it as bragging, but as a statement of fact. The more important he thinks a fact is, the more often he'...
- Too young to "brag", so I would let this one go. He's a preschooler, so they play around with language and repeat new phrases (especially those that get a reaction) u...
Woud You Take Your Child Back If This Happened?????/
Asked by D.W. from Dallas
on October 27, 2008
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I recently decided to enroll my daughter into Mothers Day Out for social interaction as well as personal time for myself! When I picked her up on Thursday she was act...
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- NOPE! Even if it really was an accident. I would think your daughter would be truly afraid of returning. I would find another program to continue giving her a soical o...
- Absolutely not. Buying teddy bears & paying a doctor bill doesnt hide the fact that she hurt your child, & tried to cover it up or blame your child as being 'defiant'....
- No, I would never take my child back there!!! Especially how your child did not want to tell you first what had happened. It would make me wonder what that teacher s...
Screaming Baby
Asked by A.C. from Detroit
on September 25, 2008
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Hi ladies-
Here I go again... my baby girl is 8 1/2 months old (never an easy baby) but seriously she screams and whines ALL DAY LONG. I am about to go crazy. She w...
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- yes its possible she is just a fabulous screamer! My first daughter was a little more needy but ALL mine are pretty much that way! for me a sling has worked wonders....
- A., There are a couple of things that could be going on here. She could be teething... It could be seperation anxiety(sp?)... She may be over tired.... Ear infec...
- Is she getting enough sleep? I know all my LO's become terrors when they don't have enough sleep. Also, she is old enough to cry it out. I know it's hard to let the...
Help with Sleeping Through the Night Please
Asked by J.W. from Medford
on September 1, 2008
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I have a 15 month old & a 3 year old that share a room. My 3 year old is in a toddler bed & can get out. My 3 year old will wake about 2 times a night & will need me ...
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- My now 9 year old son used to wake every night at 2 am and I would give him a bottle to get him back to sleep (he was a bottle baby anyway). I realized that, with plan...
- We just weened our 23 mo. old from the bottle and I was concerned about the sleep process with this new process. My husband and I had a talk with her and told her tha...
- SuperNanny has a technique for this. She says to calmly put the toddler or preschooler back to bed without saying anything. Keep doing this until they know they have...
Dealing with Dog and Baby
Asked by T.E. from Los Angeles
on February 26, 2007
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I am having a very very difficult time with my husband's dog. We've been together for 7 years, and the dog was never really a problem until I had a baby. I should sa...
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- Hi T., First you have to find out why the dog is such a big deal. Seriously many of us go about things superficially. It seems to me this is much deeper for you tha...
- Hi T., One thing that I would suggest is make your husband take the dog to work with him one time. Let him see how hard it is to work with the dog. Most guys dont u...
- Hello T., I'm sorry to hear about your dog problems. I do have to agree with the responses that say you have to work with your dog to get it to behave. Unfortunatel...
Handling My Daughter's Feelings When I Am Just Learning to Handle My Own.
Asked by J.B. from Chicago
on December 31, 2011
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Hi mamma's. - The last few weeks, my just 4 yr. old daughter has been fighting certain things that she does like such as taking a nap ( that is the biggest one) or c...
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- I think that if I were you, I'd go talk to a child psychologist about your daughter. It worries me that perhaps she has inherited some of your issues. Dwelling on ba...
- I tell my son "I am sorry that you are upset but you know that even when I say No or correct you I still love you" Or something along those lines while also reinforcin...
- Unfortunately, mental illness is hereditary and it is possible that your daughter may be showing signs of anxiety already by her dwelling on the bad stuff and constant...
Looking for Help with What to Do with Different Sides of Having Another Child
Asked by M.D. from Detroit
on April 13, 2009
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Okay. I want another child and my husband doesn't. We have a 5.5 and a 3.5 year old. My husband is 35 and I am 32. We both have good jobs and we believe we are saf...
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- Good Morning, I can feel your issue, in the beginning my husband and I did not want anymore children I have two boys 9 and 5. Now, however, I am feeling like I want...
- I think its sad if you have more kids and put them in day care. Sorry that sounds Bad, But Why Have them if your not gonna raise them really?
- Well mt husband said he didn't want a 5th child. but I did. He was very dead against it but he sid he would consider another I told him I understood if we have anothe...
Unusual and Common Kid Obsessions
Asked by H.H. from Dallas
on September 15, 2007
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I am doing some informal research on (non-clinical)obsessions of 2-6 year old kids. For instance, I have a 4 y/o that has been obsessed with diggers for 2 years and p...
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- My 4 yr old likes anything pink, but isn't really "obsessed" -- she's fine with any other color too. This is kind of random, and very forward of me, but an "obsessi...
- Please don't worry. I recently posted a very similar question on a moms group board I am on, and just about every mom told me her child (mostly 2-3 year olds) had som...
- My older son has ALWAYS been obsessed with electronics and anything with buttons (one's that do something). When he was two he would carry around CD's like they were ...
When to Start Sleep Training in a Conflicted, Separating Household?
Asked by C.M. from Miami
on July 1, 2011
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My son is 7 months old and absolutely refuses to go to sleep without me. He screams when in his crib. Not only, does he want to be in bed with me but also cuddled clos...
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- Due to the soon to be MAJOR upheaval and change in the family dynamic... now more than ever your infant child will need your safety, love, comfort and breast. Co-slee...
- Co sleep until you have moved and are resettled six weeks. Then move your son to a crib next to your bed. He won't be able to climb out of it if it is one of those d...
- I would rock my son until he was asleep and then put him in the crib. He would wake up as soon as I laid him down and start to cry. We got one of the heartbeat bears a...
