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• My four year old sister is already body conscious! how do I help her?

  My sister is only four years old and she has a negative outlook on her body, I can assume she got this discourse from overhearing conversations between my teenage self and older sister and the media. 

  we didn't realise she would absorb what she heard us say, but recently she has been saying worrying things like, "I need to exercise" when we told her she doesn't need to exercise as she is only a kid started crying that her "tummy is too big" when we told her its not and she is perfect as she is, she became adamant that her tummy is too big and that she 'hates big tummies' and doesn't want that. she also said other worrying things like "I eat too much" 

  How do I stop her from saying and thinking like this?

  How do I help her have a healthy outlook on body image and food?

  3 Answers2 weeks ago

• Your thoughts on this?

  So I have a 12 year old son (6th grade).  When he was 11 years old (5th grade), he was bullied excessively (he almost attempted suicide).  

  My son recently said that he hates those people who bullied him as much as Adolf Hitler hated Jewish people.  He also said they (those who bullied him) should burn.

  Your thoughts?

  3 Answers3 weeks ago

• My son was excluded from school?

  My son has been excluded from school for punching someone in the face. When I were called in to school because of it the head teacher dismissed his side of the story telling him he did not want to hear it. He told me when he got home that although it was him who was caught the person he punched was the one who escalated the fight between the two of them. However, he told me he punched the person in the face because he laughed at his dads recent death. Whilst I am extremely disappointed in my son, I do feel that this should be reported as well. My son has been excluded once before. What do you think I should do?

  2 Answers3 weeks ago

• Mom showed daughter photos of male female?

  Apparently my 8 year old was asking how boys and girls are different, and why boys can't have babies, and why don't boys get periods. 

  The mom showed our kid photos of male and female Anatomy.  The drawing type of photos and tried to explain to get about the how boys have a penis, and girls have a vagina. How girls have an egg, and boys have sperm. 

  I am not okay with this! I think she is way to young to see any anatomy photos, and doesn't need to hear about how a boys sperm have to fertilized the egg.

  I need advice!  She is only 8 1/2 

  13 Answers2 months ago

• I’m babysitting tonight what should we do!!?

  It’s two girls, 5 and 9 and the 9 year old is very mature for her age so she doesn’t ever want to play the games the 5 year old does. 

  3 Answers2 months ago

• If I was described as a banana, how ripe would I be?

  I am 29 years old?

  Green all the way being obviously a baby, brown being still young but itching up to middle aged and black or rotten being very old? 

  5 Answers2 months ago

• Child behavior..?

  Recently a neighbor child has been playing with my daughter and I was happy as my kid got somebody to play. At first she used to spy around house and visit at us during my daughters school hours (online) and disturb the classes. It’s like this child doesn’t want to follow any rules or respect others privacy. The parents appear to be good but hardly available to talk and totally ignorant of this child. The child behaves more like a spy, inquiring about our plans, my daughter’s status in classes and sometimes says in a creepy voice that she is following what my daughter is learning etc. it felt more like an adult talking out of a child mouth. Even if I put the chain on the door, she would force herself inside asking why she can’t be inside. She even joined same extracurricular acitivities as my kid and seems to follow strictly what we are doing and competing with our kid rather than enjoying playtime. I am worried for this kid future as well as my kid and don’t want to my kid to learn this horse race attitude. Recently the kid joined my kids same extracurricular classes and follows her status and talks demotivating to my kid. we bump into that child somehow and my kid seems upset because of this.  

  I talk to my kid to ignore things and concentrate & enjoy rather than getting disturbed. It feels like that kid is invisible following us always.  It’s mostly in other classes that we bump into each other. Wonder how to fix this without causing troubles with the kids parents.

  3 Answers2 months ago

• What was the most embarrassing thing to happen to you like getting yelled at or getting spanked in public?

  5 Answers3 months ago

• Do kids understand the concept of suicide and anger related?

  A few years ago someone I knew committed suicide at the age of 21 apparently by hanging but I’m not sure if it’s completely true, but as far as I know he apparently is not alive anymore

  I’m around kids more and if I was talking to the kids some thing like 5 to 11 or something like that even more than that, do they understand it? I think kids do kind of know that people kill him self but usually they’re adults. It is a tough topic but would it be ever necessary to bring it up with the kids as young as six or seven? How do you explain it

  3 months ago

• How to help my son in kindergarten get his grades up? ?

  Anyone have any examples of how to help my son in kindergarten will math and english we got his scores and they was below average. I need ideas on how to help him it's kinda hard for him since he didn't go to pre-k. That why I'm asking for help

  10 Answers3 months ago

• Too much homework for 7 years olds?

  I have a seven year old and the child gets home at 330, then snack and 20 minutes read, and play when I get home. we sit down to practice her spelling words. i say them she writes them. well last night she threw a royal fit about how mean I was making her  practice.  I have other things I would like to do, but Each school night we practice  spelling words. Am I mean or being a parent?

  10 Answers3 months ago