The following questions are related to ‘Parenting and Children’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Licensed Psychologist.
Q: My daughter is 7 years old and has been body-rocking from the time she could sit up. She’s starting second grade and I’m beginning to worry about it happening at school. I’m afraid she could distract the other children and they may tease her about it. She’s also somewhat of a loner in social […]
Q: I am a teenager, currently thinking about the kind of future I want to have. My parents are very old, and in fact are the age most grandparents would be. As I also have younger siblings, this puts a huge burden on my parents to support us, and for me to support my parents. […]
Q: I’m a thirteen-year-old girl with a verbally abusive mother who gives me very long speeches about how disappointed in me she is, how disgusting I am, or how fat I am. Sometimes the speeches are in private, but other times they are in front of family or my friends. I am overweight, but this […]
Q: My girlfriend’s father is too possessive of her, too jealous and too controlling, to a ridiculous point. I can’t even pick her up after she gets out of school at night because he says to her I don’t have the right to do that and I have no responsibilities over her, that he’s the […]
Q: At what age would one begin potty training a toddler, and under what conditions (i.e. weather, etc)? My toddler does not live with me. She lives with her father. It’s a long story, but I am trying to get her back through the courts. I am concerned that he has started potty training her, […]
Q: My husband and I are now taking care of a 10-year-old girl, because her mom is an addict who won’t get help. We have had her for approximately four weeks. She sees her mom two days a week, and texts her twice a day. Tomorrow she is going to her mom’s, and for the […]
Q: I have a friend and co-worker who I’m concerned about. The problem is that she just will not seek help. A few weeks ago, after the managers had stressed her out, she broke down in front of me. She was shaking and crying, jabbing her wrists with an ink pen, pulling her hair out, […]
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