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 found out that my six-year-old daughter and her six-year-old friend have been playing “doctor” and “babies”. There has been touching of genitalia from both girls on three or more occasions. My main concern is that when I talked to my daughter’s friend’s Mother, this Mother told me that her daughter had “sexual” experience [...]
Q: My son’s ex has remarried. She is allowing his 4 1/2-year-old daughter to call him daddy. Is this right? It hurts my son and he has asked her to please not do this. He feels that if this marriage doesn’t last (a lot of her relationships haven’t, although this is the first marriage), this [...]
Q: Our 10-year-old boy refuses to sleep alone all of a sudden. He shares a room with his sister, and they have bunk beds. He has always been very difficult to get to sleep. He always procrastinates. But now he is insisting on sleeping in his sister’s bed. She is 8 and hates to sleep [...]
Q: I have two girls; they are 2 and 3, and I have noticed that they play with themselves. I have also noticed they are really raw. I need to know if my babies are being molested, and what other signs I should be looking for. A: It’s unlikely that your children have been molested. [...]
Q: I feel like something is wrong with me. Up until this year, I was pretty outgoing and friendly. However, this year, I feel completely insecure. I cannot talk to anyone without suspecting motives, and I just feel lonely, as though I have no one to talk to. I pick out the flaws in people, [...]
Q: Recently my sister and I, both college educated, had a huge verbal and physical confrontation in front of my 4 yr old. My sister and I actually had about 30 seconds of shoving and hitting each other. After the fact, completely stunned at what had taken place, we realized my child had witnessed the [...]
Q: I am from Cincinnati Ohio and so are my two boys, Steve and Chris. We moved to Michigan 14 years ago with my new husband. His three children were from Michigan so to see them we moved here. My son Steve was murdered 10 years ago, and when my son Chris turned 18 he [...]
