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How often should my wife breastfeed our newborn?
Our newborn is one week old and a boy. When we were still in hospital, the nurse was giving formula milk to our newborn every 3 hours. But since we brought our baby home, we exclusively breastfeed our newborn but not every 3 hours. We only…
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How can I get others to respect our toy/parenting choices?
Let me explain as this sounds weird. So my wife and I are foster parents, and one of the very few things you do differently for foster children than you do your bio-children is a kind of screening of their toys (and other things but lets focus on…
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How should we support 16 year old step sister who ran away from home
We're in Canada, if that's relevant.
My partner and I live by ourselves (late 20's), and my partner's 16 year old step-sister has recently fled an emotionally abusive home life (no physical abuse so far as we can tell). Because there's no physical…
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Can temper tantrums indicate a behavior problem?
I understand that temper tantrums are relatively normal for many children.
However, some children seem to have far more temper tantrums than other children their age, and others far fewer.
Can temper tantrums be indicative of problems that should be…
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What should parents know about "flat feet"?
Our son was flat footed with very little arch. His pediatrician was not concerned.
In preschool, he complained of discomfort when wearing shoes with an arch support. By age 9-10, his condition resulted in continual knee and hip pain. Our doctor…
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Is it necessary to cut a baby's hair?
I don't have a child but I've always told myself that I won't cut my baby's hair when I do have one. My family and everyone else keep telling me all these stories about how the baby will get sick or have a big head or whatever. Personally, I think…
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How do I keep my step-son in line when the Mother turns around and rewards him for bad behaviour after I had just got done telling him "no"?
It's a constant struggle keeping my 5 year old step-son in line. I want him to have manners and be respectful. I fear that once he starts school he will be in trouble all the time. I fear that my 2 year old, soon to be 3, is picking up all his bad…
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Does reunification therapy work with 15 year old?
I'm going to provide more detail than maybe is needed to narrowly answer the question, in case it's relevant, and to solicit any broader advice which the moderators will allow. If it is TMI, you can skip.
My ex- and I got divorced 7 years ago, and…
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Difficulties in Raising Religious Children With Non Religious Fiance
Background: I was raised in an intellectual Catholic household where religion quietly infused everything we did. At the time it seemed totally normal but as I have grown up, I realized that my siblings and I had a a very good childhood. I'm thinking…
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My 16-year-old daughter has new personal items she hides - how can I make her to be more open?
I am a single mother of one 16-year-old daughter and I am very attentive to how my daughter develops as a person. We both work on it with constructive approaches.
But from time to time I discover in her school bag or drawer unfamiliar items and when…
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How to stop a (seven-year-old) child from constantly making silly, nonsensical noises and actions?
I am step father to a seven-year-old boy (let's call him H). H's father is very much involved in his life. He sees him every night for a couple of hours and they (Mother and Father) alternate weekends.
For a long time now, probably 3 to 4 years, H…
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What can we do to monitor and evaluate how a babysitter is doing?
Is it appropriate to install recording or other monitoring devices? Should the babysitter know about them?
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What house rules are appropriate for pre-teens?
As my kids grow, they need different limits. Right now, the house rules are reactionary as a result of something we didn't like happening. Things like, "call home if you are going to be somewhere other than where you said you were going to be"…
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Controlled crying isn't working at night. What are my options?
We used controlled crying to help our daughter get to sleep easier at 6 months. This was hard work at the time but now, at 10 months, we can reliably put her down at the end of her bed time routine and she happily drifts off to sleep.
However if she…
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Should a parent stop "destructive play"?
When playing with some younger nephews they like to destroy things that people have made such as a tower of blocks, drawings someone made, etc. They do so because they find it funny and probably like to see us all laugh. Again they are young, …
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