My daughter is 4, and for most of these years, I’ve put up a long, desperate, tiresome fight about how he needs to spend more time with her, listen to her, and be there for her. He has been emotionally unavailable since day one. Sometimes he used stressful workdays as an excuse. Some days he said he didn’t know what to do with her. Some days he was better and showed me he cared or was trying to care.

He’s not a terrible guy. From the outside looking in, some would say he’s great. His calling is his job, and…

My husband and I have 2 boys, one is turning 7 next month’s and the other is 4, turning 5 in July so there’s a 2 year, 4 month age gap between them. They are the BEST friends, they do everything together (we homeschool) and while they obviously have sibling spats, for the most part, they adore each other. This is fabulous considering the fact that they aren’t allowed to socialize with anyone else these days!

Anyway, we always wanted 3 kids. Originally we decided that the 2y4m gap was a bit close as far as pregnancies and parenting go…

When my 3.5-year-old is upset because things didn’t go his way he insists on doing it over and throwing a fit for a very long time, hitting and kicking and throwing things. He says nothing will help. It’s so extreme. It’s happening now on the ride home from the grocery store, so I’ll explain what happened.

After checking out, we were bagging our groceries and I told my husband I would go ahead and take a few bags and our 7-month-old to the car to start loading up. I asked my 3-year-old if he wanted to come with me or…

My husband is a very spacey person and loves alcohol and marijuana which makes it even worse. It wasn’t such a problem…until we had kids. Now we have a two-year-old and a 6-month-old, and we fight every week or two over his substance usage.

Basically, he’s been using weed since he was 13 (he says he has ADHD), and used it every day when we met, and extremely frequently since we’ve had kids. (During my pregnancy with my second, I’m pretty sure he was eating weed gummies every day, and definitely drinking several times a week.) I’ve been extremely disappointed…

I am in desperate need of advice and have never been in this situation before.

We had a family move next to us and my 5-year-old daughter goes to preschool with their two girls.

Today they saw us pull up after grocery shopping (the first time I’ve seen them they were in the street playing) and the 5-year-old and 3-year-old come running over to say hi to my daughter which was fine but when I open my door they just run into my house. I told them “excuse me you need to go let your parents know where you are”…

I’m at the end of my rope with my 8-year-old daughter. She has always done well in school and is a very advanced reader. She got the first Harry Potter book for her 7th birthday, and read it in 3 days.

This year she’s in second grade, and we are doing remote learning. My other two school-age children are managing ok, although it isn’t easy, but my daughter is hardcore STRUGGLING.

If something doesn’t go the way she expects it to the first time, she blows up. For example, if she gets a math problem wrong, or gets confused about…

I am on the edge regarding our three year old and I am reaching out asking for help. He is a willful child intelligent, imaginative, creative, and very strong. In the past year, he has been sent home with 30+ ‘ write-ups’ from his daycare for instances where he has hit his friends, pushed his friends, thrown chairs or furniture, hit and kicked daycare workers, and other general physical obstinate behavior.

My wife and I subscribe to positive reinforcement for good behavior and negative reinforcement for bad behavior. When our son has a tantrum we talk him through it, give…

I was raised in a fundamentalist religious household, but it was honestly more of a cult than anything else. I barely saw anyone outside of my immediate family when I was growing up, and got a lot of dodgy religious teachings drummed into me, and one of the main ones was homophobia. It was drilled into me that it was sinful, an abomination, etc.

When I was 15, I escaped the cult, and essentially spent the next ten years living with my (religious, but not culty) aunt and uncle, and basically deprogramming myself from everything I’d been taught. I now…