Baby
Surviving Your 12-Month-Old
A frustrated mom needs advice on helping with her now whiny, screechy, grabby, and TOTALLY NORMALLY BEHAVING one-year-old. We have recommendations.
Parenting
Playground Thunderdome
What’s the best way to react to toddler fights and aggression on the playground…especially if the offender isn’t your child?
Big Kid
Are My Children Jerks?
A parent has a question about raising kids to be kind and thoughtful people because she is fearful that despite best efforts, they are raising jerks. It’s a common fear.
Big Kid
Managing your Child’s ‘Lizard Brain’
Our children have “lizard brains”? Actually we all do. Learn what that means and how to try to handle some common disruptive behaviors in children.
Health & Safety
Boys Can Cry…But Maybe Not This Much
Parents need help with their child who starts crying too easily and it’s impacting peer relationships and the family’s quality of life. We have recommendations on what to do next.
Parenting
Things Not To Say To Your Kids. (And You’re Probably Saying Them)
There’s some common phrases (used by most parents) that can have a negative impact on kids. But with a little effort, we can all stop saying them.
Health & Safety
On SSRIs, Young Children & the Importance of Second Opinions
The pediatrician would like to put her three-year old son on SSRIs because of his aggressive behavior. Mom is conflicted since she because her son hasn’t had any behavioral assessment or therapy. She wants advice.
Parenting
Stop Hitting Your Sister!
A young girl is having some BIG emotions, difficulty with impulse control and lashing out at her sister after experiencing unsettling events. How do we get her to stop hitting her sister?
Health & Safety
Meditation Might Calm Your Children and Even Help Them Sleep
Meditation might just be the key to help some kids settle down and even get to sleep more quickly. Some schools are also seeing the benefits of meditation.
Parenting
Experts Share Their Best Discipline Secrets
Tired of your kids not behaving well? Frustrated by constant sibling fighting? Here are some creative discipline ideas that might just make a difference.
Big Kid
Help, My Best Friend’s Kid is Being Mean to My Kid!
A reader asks for help with a tricky situation: a best friend’s child with developmental issues is bullying her own child.
Parenting
You Lost It. You Yelled at Your Kid. What Do You Do Next?
You snap and yell. Loudly at your child. Now what?
Toddler
The High-Energy Early Rising Toddler
An early morning toddler riser is wrecking havoc on his family’s sleep schedule and sanity. Is his high energy typical and a function of his sleep situation or something else?
Parenting
10 Ways to Stop Your Kids From Flipping Water Bottles (Without Killing Them)
If your kids, like mine, are obsessed with the Water Bottle Flip Challenge, here are a few ways we can get them to stop before we lose more of our minds with each flippin’ flip,
Toddler
(Slightly Older) Toddlers Who Throw Toys, Food & Other Hard Unyielding Objects
What do you do when a toddler over two years old has been throwing objects and hitting for over six months now?
Toddler
Timeouts, Triggers & Toddler Tantrums
A toddler has a hard time calming down and recovering from tantrums when asked to follow simple safety requests, rules and consequences.
Toddler
The New Sibling Regression: Aggression & Defiance
Parents have gone back to work after their paternity and maternity leaves and are concerned that their older toddler daughter is too aggressive with her new sibling and has been generally too defiant. Is this new behavior something to be concerned about or typical given the changes at home?
Toddler
How to Build a Behavior Chart for Your Toddler
A mom wants to start a behavior reward chart for her toddler with whom she’s been working on staying in her own bed all night. At what age do you start one and how do you begin?
Toddler
The Toddler Who Bites
A mom needs strategies to help her toddler who is going through a normal biting phase when with other kids at the playground.
Young Child
Your Lying Young Child
How to help your child recognize that her tall tales are more about her imagination and creativity, rather than deliberate deceit and manipulation.