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How should I teach my son to play video games?
My son will be 4 soon, and he already enjoys playing a few educational games on my tablet or his mother's phone (he plays maybe as much as an hour a week).
I'm a gamer, and we've tried playing a few "real" games together, such as Mario Kart.
He…
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How to deal with visiting a household with very different parenting techniques
My wife and I have a 5 month old son, after a rocky start he's settled into an ok routine, especially for bed time (Baby massage, bath and bottle by 7/7:30). We have a problem when visiting my sister though. She has two girls, one 'hyperactive' 5…
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Do all video games really have to be moderated?
I notice a lot of 'money for good behaviour'-type development question for kids here, and the main argument is some permutation of 'giving money for good behaviour does not help develop intrinsic motivation'. I also noticed a lot of 'moderate( ie.…
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Child has been copying aggressive behavior...hitting adults. What should I do?
Recently on a visit to our friend's place, my daughter witnessed my friend's 9-year-old son smack/punch a male adult. (They were playing rough and the adult pushed a little too hard and the boy fell down. He was a little hurt and probably also…
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Restarting baby-led weaning after an actual choking
My daughter choked on mango one month into baby-led weaning (and yes, I do mean choked: reddening, wide-eyed, silent). We banged the mango out and she was fine. I however, am far from fine.
I have been sliding back into purees since. She feeds…
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How can I help my daughter's depression?
My daughter is a freshman in college and was sexually assaulted/raped on campus about 7 months ago. I noticed some cuts on her wrist when she was home last weekend and she admitted that she is cutting her wrists. She is not a very open girl and I am…
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Keep 6 months old son from touching his dirty genitals
My six-months-old son is in the habit of reaching and grabbing his own penis, as soon as I open the diaper.
This becomes a problem about twice a day, when his diaper gets really filled up and his penis and scrotum are dirty with feces.
The trivial…
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When will we know if our child is left- or right-handed?
Out of curiosity: At what age does one hand gain "advantage" over the other? When do motor skills start differentiating for arms?
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Finishing their plates vs eating later
Sometimes one or both of our kids (boys, 4 and 7) eat very little at dinner, stating that they've had enough. We do not want to force them to overeat, so usually they have to eat at last half of it and can leave the rest.
But sometimes we just know…
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What role do imaginary friends play in a child's development?
My son, currently three-and-a-half, has taken to making constant references to his "brother," who is apparently a wealthy businessman and property owner (he apparently owns several stores that sell whatever my son might imagine we need, such as a…
user420
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When will my boy be able to tell me about his day?
At what age could your kids reliably tell you about what went on in your absence? And how did you know it's reliable?
I have an almost three year old, and although he is quite talkative, it's still difficult to find out what he did when we weren't…
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At What age does a child generally recognize their shadow is their shadow and will do what they do?
This question was inspired by At What age does a baby recognize themself in a mirror? and the memory it brought up for me of the day we were on a family "hike" at a local botanical garden and my daughter (age two?) looked down and started flapping…
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When do twins know their own names?
I've read that babies generally recognize and respond to their own name at around 5 months of age. How is this different for twins (particularly identical)? Being as they often (almost always!) hear their names mentioned together, when can they…
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Preventing motion sickness in a baby on a plane
A few weeks ago, we took our 6-month-old on the plane for the first time. Five hours into a ten-hour flight, with no warning at all, he vomited (and spectacularly, not a little milk burp). A week later on the way back, despite being careful not to…
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How talkative should a three month old be?
Our daughter started babbling a lot. She used to throw gu and ga around once in a while, but now she seems to be babbling all the time. She talks to us, to all the chandeliers, her toys, she also fusses babbling instead of soft crying.
So how…
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