Parenting Advice Column
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- Should older sibling leave the family bed when baby arrives?
- "Should I report suspected child abuse?"
- Five-year-old is bullying children in playgroup
- Six-year-old resists using toilet
- Discipline techniques for an older child
- Toddler screams when waiting for turn at gym class
- Toddler resists tooth-brushing
- Church babysitter is disrespectful of toddler
- 7-month-old baby screams to be held
- Handling a one-year-old's anger
- Unschooling boy only "wants to play"
- Attachment parenting despite medical obstacles
- Mom feels guilty about past mistakes
- Parents plan to unschool / 3-year-old asks for school
- Is family co-sleeping an excuse for avoiding sex?
- Father asks when co-sleeping should end
- Weaning a two-year-old
- 12-year-old worried about the "Year 2000"
- Mom wants help from readers on the decision to homeschool
- Mom wants online source for Halloween costumes
- 10-month-old baby is swatted; witness wants advice
- 3-year-old boy wants to wear dresses
- Mom seeks alternatives to time-out
- Is it possible to make up for early parental mistakes?
- 9-year-old girl has temper tantrums and school problems
- Parents try "controlled crying"
- Mom questions clinic's advice
- Single mother reluctantly considers day care
- Grandparents raising grandchildren
- Should mom take a 2-week vacation away from her children?
- 7-month-old won't sleep / Mom exhausted
- 3-year-old boy is mean to 1-year-old sister
- Mom responds to spanker
- Parent recommends "biblical spanking"
- Parents criticized for "coddling" 5-year-old son
- Adoptive mother ponders attachment disorders
- Three-year-old refuses to potty train/throws tantrums
- Dad praises son for not crying
- 9-year-old lies
- Toddler reacts to excessive separation
- Baby throws objects / Baby disturbs parents' sleep in family bed
- Single mom and fiancé disagree on parenting issues
- Mom denounces "cry to sleep" approach
- Will child ever potty-train?
- Mom offended by comment on thumb-sucking
- Toddler battles mom during dressing and washing
- In-laws interfere with mom's parenting
- 18-month-old starts hitting
- 2-year-old starts head-banging during tantrums
- Is 11-year-old daughter too quiet?
- 4-year-old is angry at caregivers
- Adoption resources wanted
- Breastfeeding baby refuses bottle
- Angry 4-year-old
- Panic disorder in 4 year old
- Visitation problems
- Six-year-old boy develops a stutter
- Willfulness in the "terrible twos"
- Shopping with toddler
- Teacher embarrasses child
- Is child oversensitive?
- Granddaughter has cancer
- Closely-spaced children / Bored with toys / Co-sleeping
- Smoking during pregnancy
- Divorced parents disagree on co-sleeping issue
- Hitting and tantrums at preschool
- Sleep training
- Is a crying child manipulating the parent?
- Constipation problems for toddler
- When will child leave the family bed?
- Bonding after delayed breastfeeding
- Temper tantrums
- Multiple personality disorder
- Son disrespectful at school
- Potty training/nighttime needs
- Marshmallowing
- Effects of marital separation