Toddler
The Eyeglasses-Grabbing Toddler
How do you help your toddler from grabbing and throwing your eyeglasses? They think it’s a game. We have some advice.
Relationships
How Do You Solve a Problem Like This Nephew?
An aunt needs help setting reasonable behavior expectations for her older nephew when he comes over for family dinners. What can she do without adding to existing more family drama?
Young Child
Preschool Breakdown
A mom needs help now that her preschooler’s behavior has started to deteriorate. Is this the beginning of a serious problem? How can she help her child here? We have some advice.
Baby
(Don’t) Hit Me Baby One More Time
What to do when your baby thinks throwing toys at and hitting you and pulling your hair is SO MUCH FUN. We have some practical advice.
Toddler
Hands Are Not For Hitting (Your Sibling)
How to help your young toddler understand that it’s not okay to hit his older sibling for fun or to get attention. We have advice on helping both kids in this situation.
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.
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.
Big Kid
When It Comes to Siblings, Can You Change Your Rules?
Is it okay for parents to change their rules when it comes to different siblings? And how do you deal with it when your kids cry, “That’s not fair!”
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
Ceding a Bedtime Battle to Win the Bedtime War
Parents are at their wits’ end about a big bedtime power struggle they are facing with their preschool-aged child. The matter is complicated by a bedroom sharing arrangement with a sibling who is an awesome sleeper.
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?
Parenting
New Neighborhood Pariahs
A family moved into a fantastic neighborhood with a built-in playgroup for their kids. But the entire family (including the kids) are social outcasts after the father more than crossed the line with his angry outburst. Can the relationships be saved?
Toddler
The Nightmare Babysitting Charge
A babysitter is stuck in an sticky situation. Her toddler babysitting charge has behavioral issues that his mom refuses to address and it’s negatively affecting her own children and animals. Since the toddler is a friend’s child she’s having a hard time knowing how to proceed.
Relationships
Full-Time Grandma Is a Full-Time Problem
A step-dad turns to us looking for help on a tricky situation with his partner’s mother and how she is influencing her grandchild, and not in a good way.
Toddler
Behavior: What (and How) to “Teach” an Under-One-Year-Old
A mom of soon-to-be toddler needs guidance on the hows and whats to teach her young one with respect to listening and behavior.
Young Child
Personal Space & Preschoolers
A mom is concerned about how her preschooler is very physically aggressive with others particularly girls and doesn’t respond to requests to stop. Is this age appropriate and how can she help him with boundaries?
Parenting
On Becoming The Yes Mom
Parenting is full of a lot of “No’s” but it doesn’t have to be. Kristen shares how she turned a lot more of them into “Yes.”