The following questions are related to ‘Parenting and Children’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
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Q: I have elderly parents who are in their 80′s. My father is being taken in by scammers and has given them lots of money. My brother discovered this recently. We believe it has been going on in some form of scams or risky investments for decades. Dad told my brother that he was not [...]
Q: I have been in a relationship for 2 years with a man that I have started to realize is a “loser” and fits so many of the qualifications. I have also identified possible explanations for his behavior under Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Serial Bully, in my research to learn and improve my reactions to [...]
Q: I am worried about my 13-year-old daughter. I’m wondering at what point childhood fantasy is considered normal and healthy and where it lapses into something harmful. She has found a web site that explains that people like her, very sensitive, caring about the environment etc. are really Unicorns in human disguise. She has taken [...]
Q: I’m a 37-year-old male in a broken relationship. We just had a baby, a newborn. Things have not been going well but we are getting along. Unfortunately, we are talking child support and custody issues within two weeks of our newborn. I was wondering what are the consequences for sleepovers of a newborn with [...]
Q: Hello, I am a 22-year-old mother of two. I love my children very much, but I feel like I favor my youngest child, who is two. It seems like everything she does is cute and I love to do things with her. But although I love my older child who is four, I don’t [...]
Q: My daughter (21) has chosen an abusive relationship for her first serious relationship. She has told me terrible stories of verbal abuse regarding her boyfriend and although she tells me she KNOWS it is wrong she sems to be addicted to the behavior. She will not go to a therapist any longer as the [...]
Q: I have been married for 9 years. My wife was right out of high school. We have 4 kids, a house and two dogs. During this time she went through 4 years of school, now she has been working there for 2 years. I was very verbally abusive, and she walked out 3 month [...]
