Questions tagged [coping]
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How to convince teenage sister to coexist with parents?
Not a parent but an older sibling and I’m trying to establish some form of peace in my household, I’ll try to give context here without making the question too long.
My sister is a teenager that’s ...
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How do I convince my strict parents to allow me to do things as a 17 year old?
I’m 17 and I have my driver's license and I’m legally old enough for many things. However, my parents have not allowed me to drive ever since I upgraded from my permit to my license. I have also been ...
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How do my husband and I get over our fear of having another difficult baby?
We are first time parents. Our daughter is 16 months old and we've had a really rough time since she was born. We had no idea what we were in for.
It really has just been a combination of difficult ...
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How to help an early teen stop catastrophizing?
Yesterday, while I was still at work, I got a phone call from my 13 year old who had come home from school very stressed out because a teacher had told the entire class to improve presentations they ...
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How can I help my 5-year-old introvert boy relax?
I have a 5-year-old boy, with two younger brothers (1 year and 3 years old). He is intelligent, sensitive (easily stressed) and shy. I would definitely label him an introvert, but he does not like to ...
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How to help a 5-year-old deal with negative emotions?
My 5-year-old gets angry and frustrated in situations like:
losing at a board game
being told he is wrong about something
being told not to yell 'You are so fat!' at a teacher with the explanation it ...
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How to make my oversensitive 4-year-old stop crying so he won't be targeted by bullies later?
My 4-year-old son is very sensitive and cries for anything. For example, when visiting one of his cousins, he would say it's time for my son to go home and my son would start crying.
There are a lot ...
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What strategies can I teach my (autistic) child to deal with another child who winds him up?
We have a group of friends that came about through having children the same age; so the children are friends and the parents are friends, and we hang out quite a bit. A couple of years ago, another ...
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My 8-year-old son is still soiling and wetting himself. Please help!
My 8-year-old son has been wetting and soiling himself for a long time now. We have been referred to hospital specialist nurses who are helping retrain his bladder. This was over 18 months ago and we ...
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What to do with an adult child with a mental illness and drug taking
Family history
We have a strong family history of suicide, mental illness and drug addiction.
My brother had died (the coroner stated suicide) two years after my husband died. He was a crystal meth ...
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An absent father not being absent anymore
Four years ago my daughter's biological dad walked out on us for another family when my daughter was 6 months old. At the time we were only teenagers. He never asked about her or bothered to pay a ...
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How to remain unaffected by my 10-year-old son's angry outbursts?
My son is ten years old now and I feel that over the past year or so he has become increasingly irritable and prone to angry outbursts. He is easily frustrated by the smallest things and tears up and ...
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How to teach my 7-year-old daughter to not be so melodramatic when dealing with bullying and any stressful situation?
I am a single dad with a 7-year-old daughter. Her mum disappeared when she was 2. She had borderline personality disorder. My daughter has some behaviour in common with BPD such as 'black and white' ...
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How to cope with my guilt about the way I punished my child?
My 9-year-old child is afraid of swimming, although he is good at parts of it. In just 6-7 days, he is now able to float and can swim a half of the length of the pool. But he doesn't go into the pool ...
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How do you help a primary schooler who is struggling after a death in the family?
My mother-in-law recently passed away.
It was rather sudden; the funeral was less than 2 weeks after she first went to the hospital, and it was several days in the hospital before we realized the ...
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