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Playground Pariah
My seventeen-month-old is ecstatic to be out in the park with the other kids. I thought I would be, too, but there's a slight problem: All I do is negotiate the sharing of toys! My kid is not interested in sharing his toys and he's not interested in giving other people's toys back. It's a pretty unpleasant side of him. I'm praying it's totally nor...
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Over(Co)Slept
I need advice. I am a full-time working mum of an eight-month-old daughter and a three-year, nine-month-old toddler son. My son has never been a good sleeper. He's always woken up at least one or more times at night to pee, drink water, or scream (night terrors). I believe I contributed somewhat to his bad sleeping habits. He started co-sleeping...
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I Swear
My daughter has just gotten to the point where she's repeating things we say to her, which is really fun. Unfortunately, it's also made me realise that I use a lot of words that would be inappropriate for her to repeat. So, easy, stop swearing right? But it's not so easy. I grew up in a very repressed religious household where we were punished for...
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Parental Advisory: Shy Girl
My daughter is four, and has attended an excellent preschool for almost a year now. For the most part, we love the school, and she seems to like it too. However, she is a dreamy little girl who would rather play on her own than in a big group of children. She's an only child, and I'm sure it's in part because of that — but both my husban...
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My Little Parrot
After months of worry and thousands of dollars of speech therapy, we just want our two-year-old to shut up already! With his newfound verbosity, he will latch on to a few words or a phrase, and repeat them over and over and over, often while saying it closer and closer to our faces. We figure this is an attention-getting tactic that he's been usi...
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Overscheduled?
I have my three-year-old involved in several after-school activities each week and am worried I overdid it. Let me be clear: I did NOT sign her up for these classes to get her into schools or improve her "skill set" or something absurd like that. I was simply concerned that her long seven-hour post-school stretch at home (waiting around while sibl...
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Uncut
Our five-year-old son is uncircumcised. We just moved countries. and he says most of his classmates and all of his friends are cut. He's asking about getting circumcised to look like them. How do we handle his request? We sure don't want to circ a five-year-old. — Uncut Dear Uncut, Though there are hordes of people in both pro and anti c...
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Sister Act
My question is about my niece. I am only twenty-four and have no children of my own, but mothering has always been second nature to me. I spend a lot of time with my niece, especially because parenting has proved a bit overwhelming for my sister. This can be a problem sometimes, because even though my sister and I are very close, our childcare tec...
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