My son of 3yrs 4mths has started to bite at playschool. What should I do to stop this behavior and also his visits to me in the night? My son has really been a CLB from the word go. He had an excellent routine, ate and slept with no problems at all. He started playschool […]
Continue ReadingI am concerned about my son of 26mths who has started head banging when settling himself to sleep. My little boy is now 26 months old and for the past 2 months on and off he has been head banging at night and occasionally to get himself off to sleep at his lunchtime nap. My […]
Continue ReadingMy 2.5yr old is well behaved at nursery but once he is home he becomes very boisterous and wild. I returned to full time work when my son was 18mths old. We have found a lovely nursery for him which he enjoys going to every day. The staff there often comment how well behaved and […]
Continue ReadingMy daughter of 2.5 years has invented an imaginary friend. Should I be worried? My daughter is a very articulate for her age, having talked early. Recently I have noticed the presence of an imaginary friend. She can be heard talking to him [?] at great length, usually when in the early morning and before […]
Continue ReadingOver the past two or three weeks I have noticed that my son of 3 years 2 months has started to tell fibs. I am concerned that this behaviour is escalating but am unsure how to tackle the problem. Over the past two or three weeks I have noticed my son of 3 years 2 […]
Continue ReadingMy little girl is just over 2 and half years old. Over the last few weeks or so, everything has become a battle, especially getting her dressed, bathing her and putting her to bed. She constantly asks for my partner to do this instead of me, partly I think because he is happy to take […]
Continue ReadingMy four-year-old daughter, Rosie, started school in September. She has a summer Birthday, and is one of the youngest in her year group. She has settled very happily into school, but I have noticed that she has begun to tell lies. Apparently she told another child in her class that if you told lies you […]
Continue ReadingMy six-year-old daughter, Eleanor, has recently started biting her nails. Last week one of the cuticles became quite inflamed, and I was concerned that I would need to take her to the doctor. She has always been quite a “mouthy” child, and even now, despite repeated gentle discouragement, I find her chewing on hair clips […]
Continue ReadingFear 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 […]
Continue ReadingMy 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 […]
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