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Fear of Father Christmas: My five-year-old daughter has always been naturally wary of strangers. Even as a baby she wouldn’t smile at people that she didn’t know, and would begin to cry when strangers talked to her in her pushchair. In the Christmas holidays we had planned to take her to London to meet Father Christmas with her cousins, but when I told her about this outing she...

My two-and-a-half-year-old son has become really obsessive about certain things. Usually about things being done in a certain order or being put back in exactly the right place. For example if I put his pants on before his vest, he has to take them off and start again, in the ‘correct’ order. This means that simple things take twice as long as they should. I know he is...

My daughter, Abigail (age 2 ¾), has recently become very much more cuddly with me than she usually is. I’m very happy about this, but it is slightly unusual because she’s started calling herself ‘Baby Abigail’. She wants to be held on my lap like a baby and cuddled – she’s even suggested sitting on my knee like this and having her milk (which she hasn’t done since...