Sleep Training: Child
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I Have Had It with My 5 Year Old!!
Asked by R.D. from Richmond
on September 4, 2010
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If you guys read my post regarding my defiant 5 year old, then you know all about the tip of the iceberg.
The straw that broke the camels back: she just intentiona...
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- I have 6 and 5 yr old girls and I was just crying last week to my mom about the same thing. I love my children but sometimes I just dont like them. My girls also are n...
- Hi youve had a lot of helpfull advice but would still like to offer my 2 cents:) look into Love and Logic ( foster cline) see if you can get books by him from the li...
- Hi, Not many suggestions but I have to hope that this is an age thing because my 5 year old girl is absolutely beastly as well. She figures out what buttons to push fo...
5 Year Old Making Me Crazy. Is This Normal?
Asked by C.C. from Dallas
on April 12, 2008
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I'm really having a hard time with my 5 year old. I know a lot of it has to do with me, because I'm so stretched thin right now. My husband works ALL the time and I h...
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- What works for me is while I am doing laundry or just doing what have to do after getting out of work I have my 5 yr old where I could get her into another project, I ...
- C., you have received a lot of good advice on how to get your five year old to play or help you so he can be with you and scheduling family time with the kids and with...
- Hello C., I feel for you. Part of is normal... he wants to be whichever room you're in. see what he can 'help' you with. I know your time is very short. does he lik...
5 Year Old Still Wetting the Bed at Night
Asked by N.J. from San Francisco
on January 23, 2008
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My 5 year old boy is still wetting the bed at night. My older son was potty trained at 2 1/2 and never had any accidents even at night. My second son is such a heavy s...
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- Sometimes it is muscle control. You can try putting 2-3 Cheerios in the toilet and have him aim/shoot for one and try stopping, over and over. It is a fun game for the...
- Hello N., Continue to be patient with you child. My nephew is 9 years old and he still wets the bed. Whenever he's at my home, I'll wake him up early in the morni...
- You know, it's more a matter of physiology than anything else. When his muscles mature enough he will stop. I know it's hard though. I have one child that wet the bed ...
5 Year Old Twin Throwing Tantrums and Trying to Be in Control
Asked by M.K. from Chicago
on September 18, 2008
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I am looking for the experience and advice of the women of this group. I have 5 year old twin girls and am having an issue with one of them. She has been giving me and...
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- We had something similar...we used a positive reward chart...stickers...when the chart was completed she earned this cheap princess thing I got at Walmart. For your o...
- Hi M., I would recommend checking out Tuesday's Child. www.tuesdayschildchicago.org I saw that you work full-time, but they have a Saturday program (9:30-12), you...
- Try having a picture list with the order that things go in the morning. When they wake up set the timer, when it goes off they start their list. if they stop they go...
6 Year Old Still Wets the Bed at Night
Asked by C.D. from Salinas
on May 23, 2008
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I have a 6 year old boy who has been potty trained since he was 2 1/2. He never has accadents during the day but is having trouble potty training at night. He is dry...
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- Don't over react or make him feel bad is my first advice. My brother who is now 40 yrs old made some comment how our parents ridiculed him b/c he wet the bed until li...
- He will, eventually grow out of it. Please, do not pressure him or make him feel that something is wrong with him. Many boys, in particular, gave this problem. Get ...
- I have a six year old son who is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. I got him potty trained after much tears, and trials. As far as at night,we put a Goodnights ...
Night Time Potty Training for Almost 6 Year Old
Asked by L.K. from Boston
on January 17, 2009
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My almost 6 year old son is still wearing diapers at night. He is such a sound sleeper and doesn't even wake up. We've attempted to train him and have done everythin...
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- I had two kids who wet the bed until they were 11 or 12(boy and girl). My oldest was completely trained, night and day by his second birthday. He obviously didn't inhe...
- My older son had stayed dry through the night and then around 8 yrs or so started wetting the bed at night. We had him checked out by the pediatrician and his urologi...
- Hi L., you are not alone. My 12 year old son has to wear depends to bed. We tried waking him up in the middle of the night, the alarm you attach to your underwear......
5 Year Old Is Depressed
Asked by R.M. from Los Angeles
on January 9, 2011
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My 5 year old girl is completely depressed all of a sudden - it is like she learned about the emotion of guilt for the first time and it is literally ruining her days ...
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- I get really weird from MSG and Aspartame. I get incredibly self conscious and feel nervous-like. Since this is an all-of-a-sudden thing for your daughter, and since...
- Does she get a lot of love, attention, reassurance and cuddles when she acts this way? Is it possible that she has learned that if she cries and feels guilty for some...
- THis really does sound like depression...esp the part about being scared she doesn't love anybody. This is worth a call to the pediatrician at the very least. And I ...
6 Year Old That Can't Seem to Move Fast in the Morning!
Asked by D.B. from San Francisco
on March 18, 2008
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My 6 year old daughter (who is in Kindergarten) does not know the meaning of the words "please move quickly" -- especially in the morning when we are rushing to get re...
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- I had this problem with my son. I started putting his clothes in the car and told him to be dressed by the time we got to school or he would go in his jammies. The bre...
- I also had sluggish kids in the morning(actually they still are as teens, but they take responsibility for themselves now). When they were younger they were slow and ...
- yup yup yup...very...slow... daughter..., got one of those myself. :) She is almost 21 now and she is STILL slow. No amount of pressure I put on has ever helped and ...
Any Suggesting for Training a 6 Year Old Still in Pull-ups at Night?
Asked by R.G. from Los Angeles
on May 4, 2010
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My six, just turned six, year old daughter is verbal, bright, and precocious. She was potty trained at 2.5 but has always worn pull-ups at night which was fine with me...
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- Does her doctor know that at 6, she still is wearing the pullups at night? I know some kids have bladder issues, but it just makes me wonder because neither of my kid...
- Yep! tell him/her "no more pull-ups" that the pull-ups are for little babies. I did the cold turkey thing and it worked very well. Just make sure you purchase the vin...
- Yup. Sounds like she CAN, but is just choosing to stay in bed. I would set some goals and lose the pull ups. If she pees, it probably won't be every night. Make it...
Bedwetting with Almost 6 Year Old - HELP!
Asked by C.G. from San Francisco
on February 11, 2009
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Hi mommies -
My soon-to-be 6 year old son still wets the bed. He is a very sound sleeper and is hard to wake up. We have tried no drinks past 6, waking him up thr...
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- Dear C. It won't hurt to ask for a consultation with a urologist just to rule out any physical cause for this. Sometimes small bladders in children who are very sound...
- A couple thoughts -- I would say since he is upset about it, hold off on a doctor's visit. It will only increase his feeling of failure and frustration, especially sin...
- Hi C., I am going through the same thing with my 5 year old. It is so hard. She is in and out of pull-ups and I try to limit water, but like you said she is a hard sle...
