The following questions are related to ‘Parenting and Children’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I have a 3 1/2-year-old son that loves to put all his toys and every toy in the house in a large pile and then crash/trash them all over the place. He doesn’t really play with toys on his own very much, he just throws them around, really. Then when we tell him to [...]
Q: My beautiful 3-year-old grand daughter is such a handful! Her mother and dad are exhausted, and I can’t watch her for more than 2 hours without feeling somewhat trapped! My daughter says she will eat her own stools! I’ve not witnessed that but what she has done is strip in public, and holler “I’m [...]
Q: I have this feeling of a dream-like state. I always feel like I am dreaming or drunk. I went to my regular doctor and she ran a bunch of tests on me, but all came up fine. She sent me to a psychiatrist and she said I have some social anxiety. I don’t really [...]
Q: Can a Father/husband ruin a relationship between mother and daughter depending on how he handles issues that arise in the household? A: Anyone involved in a relationship can ruin that relationship! Fathers/Husbands have a relationship with their wife and daughter — sometimes good, sometimes bad. Fathers often create problems with the mother and daughter [...]
Q: As my therapist and I have discussed my husband’s behavior because of its effect on me, she has hazarded a guess that he is dealing with reactive attachment disorder. The things I’ve noticed about him seem to indicate he’s got borderline PD tendencies. (He himself agrees to this.) I did some searching to find [...]
Q: I have a son, only one, who is not speaking up to now. His age is nearly four. I’m worried that he’ll be autistic. His behavior is absolutely normal. I tested his hearing, normal. But he can say only a little, such as aaapaaa, aaamaaa. One important thing is he doesn’t know his name. [...]
Q: In the attempt to keep this short: 29-year-old female. Married 8 years — 2 kids under 10. Diagnosed with Dysthymia after devastating miscarriage of twins at 19 years old. Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder at 24 years old. Had last child at 25 and restarted antidepressants at 26. Can’t remember anything — appointments, conversations from [...]
