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What are the pros and cons of feeding on demand?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of feeding an infant on demand? Roughly when should feeding on demand stop and a proper schedule start?
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Is long-term punishment effective for children under 5?
A child throws a ball inside the house hard enough to knock over some furniture.
He knows he's not supposed to throw the ball inside, so there's a punishment.
Is "taking the ball away for a week" an effective punishment for a child under 5,…
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My one year old son doesn't want to eat. What happened to my son?
When my son was under 11 months old, he ate a lot, but I don't know what changed when he reached 1 year old. It seems like he doesn't like to eat. When we give our son food, sometimes he tries to taste or eat it a little, but then refuses to eat it.…
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How do you get a teenager to take shorter showers?
It's great that they think hygiene is important. It's a hassle that the bathroom is tied up.
How do you get a teenager to be faster in the shower?
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Kids Website, is it a good idea?
My daughter is just 4 months old. Being a software developer, I register two domains on her name, as soon as her name is finalized.
Now I was looking for some really eye catching kid website template. To my surprise, I didn't find many. Again few of…
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Is it normal that a 2½ year old omits any "s" in the start of words?
My son is not quite 3 years old yet. He's doing great in terms of speaking except for one detail: whenever a word begins with an s he will just skip that sound. For instance he consistently says top instead of stop.
When the s is in the middle or…
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What is the minimum amount of structure and rules that a child needs?
My wife and I have very different ways of handling our children (almost 3 and 5 years old). We agree about the rules we want to set, but we are complete opposite when it comes to implementing the rules.
For the last three to four years, I have been…
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Ideas for infant bedding
We have an active 10 month old, who sleeps soundly, but tends to roll a lot thereby hitting his head against the crib railings. Having a small apartment, we don't have much place for a mattress on the floor, or a large sized crib. Co-sleeping is…
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How do I stop my 2-year-old son from hitting and biting
My 2-year-old son has outbursts of anger when he cannot get his own way, he seems to lose control of himself and will scream, hit and even sometimes bite the person that is stopping him from doing what he wants to do.
He always says sorry for doing…
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When should you worry about a toddler's loss of appetite and weight?
My 2 year-old seems to have lost her appetite in the last 3 to 4 weeks: she eats very little at meal times (couple of mouthfuls) and definitely much less than she used to. She does not seem to be ill, sleeps well at night and nap times, has plenty…
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How to help my newborn pass gas
I have a newborn (10 days). She seems to struggle with a lot of gas several times a day (first question, is this too much!?). How do we help her pass the gas more quickly and easily? She does get it out eventually, but we feel kinda helpless. We…
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What should I look for in educational iPad apps for children?
What qualities should I look for in educational iPad apps for children?
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Does skipping crawling stage affect your child brain development?
My son is almost 9 month old right now, but he still cannot crawl. All he can do is creeping when he want to get anythings in front of him. It seems that he will skip his crawling stage. Or maybe I'm too early to judge it ?
On the other side, I…
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How can parents avoid their child becoming a "whiner"?
Inspired from my previous question, but distilled to be more specific:
What types of parenting would cause a child to become a "whiner?" By this, I mean that the child becomes someone who tends to use complaining to authority figures (exaggerating…
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How do you respond to minor injuries?
I have a 21-month-old daughter. Sometimes (not always), if she bumps her head, or stubs her toe, or whatever, this results in crying and asking to be held (and not wanting to be put down once the crying has stopped).
My current response to this is…
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