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Toddler requires Mom or Dad to stay in the room to fall asleep
My toddler refuses to go to sleep without my wife or myself sitting or lying next to his bed.
Background - My son is about 2.5 years old. His birthday is in October. He has been sleeping in a toddler bed for about 3.5 months now. Prior this this…
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What techniques can keep a reluctant pre-schooler on a morning schedule?
Early starts at distant work make for alarm clocks and morning rush in our house.
A 4 year old child and two adults have around an hour to get washed, dressed and fed to leave at 7am.
To my son there is no motive or reason to get ready in the…
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Too much computer?
My teenager spends hours and hours on the computer doing "programming" "coding" and other web-design stuff. He spends hours on stackoverflow. How should I be monitoring this behavior and should I be concerned?
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How to help my 5-year-old when other children don't want to play with him?
My 5-year-old is in Kindergarten. I work at home and I pick him up from the bus stop every day.
Everyday, the first thing out of his mouth after school is, "Can I have a play date with so and so (person varies)?"
I really really want him to play…
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Opposing religious views causes serious problems with my mother
I am a 15 year old with differing religious views from my mother, who is Christian. I don't hate religion like my mother has come to believe, I am just not personally religious myself and she has taken this a very wrong way...
In detailing this…
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Threat of internet predators -- how significant is it?
There is a lot of talk about securing your children's access to electronic devices, the web, etc. There are lots of scary stories about terrible things happening, no doubt many terrible things have happened.
However, what I have not been able to…
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How can we make a long road trip pleasant for a toddler and the parents?
We're planning to drive to visit my family later this year. It is roughly a 10-11 hour drive if we go straight through (I'm planning on making fairly frequent stops, however, as I think it would be unfair to expect our son to sit still the entire…
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Is it ok to play with a 10 months old baby in nature?
I have a very curious 10 month old daughter who and touches and examines everything.
I'd like to take her to a small national park and show her trees, bark, and pieces of wood and rocks on the beach. I'd like to let her sit on the grass, play in…
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What factors should you consider when deciding how much to pay a babysitter?
What factors do you consider when deciding how much to pay a babysitter per hour? The time of day, meals, duration, travel, etc.?
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How to react to "cruelty" of a toddler?
My son is two and a half years old and is not in general of the violent type. However he regularly enjoys showing "cruelty". By that I mean that regularly when he "by accident" (let's stay positive) hits someone or some stuffed animal and we tell…
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What is the most appropriate way to address contrarianism in a 4-year-old?
My 4-year-old son tends to default to saying no changes in activity (even if he is clearly no longer interested in the current activity). Overall he is helpful, considerate, and will do things we ask around the house but he will just generally…
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What schedule works for working parents and their kids to have dinner together as a family?
Each day during the week, I pick up my 1.5-year-old daughter at daycare on my way home from work, and we are home between around 5:30 or 5:45. By then, she is quite hungry, since they eat at 2 pm at daycare.
The routine we have now is that I hand…
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Does safe bed-sharing increase the risk of SIDS?
We were told just prior to checking out of the hospital that sleeping with the infant, along with side-sleeping and front-sleeping, increases the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
I was under the impression that safe cosleeping habits…
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When is corporal punishment abuse, really?
My friend (who believes in corporal punishment delivered lovingly[1]) has cancelled two of her pediatrician appointments now because one or another of her (4) children have had bruises on their bottoms. I also know that some kids bruise more easily…
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Woman: Afraid of infants/newborns
I am a woman, about 25 years old. People (especially my mother) tell me that my biological clock should start ticking any day now.
To be honest I can't see myself as a parent. I am disgusted by infants and newborns; their crying is annoying, they…
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