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Questions:
We covered A LOT of ground in this interview, so to help reference some of the questions, here’s a list of everything we asked, and what time to find it.
1. What do you do when a toddler sprints away from you in a store, or isn’t listening? (6:50)
2. My 5yo is currently freaking out about all clothes – shirts don’t feel good, nothing feels good. She ends up in tears (and a screaming match) whenever we have to leave the house. I’m alone in the mornings with my girls starting Monday and I’m TERRIFIED…how will I get her to school on time? (11:26)
3. I am trying to get my 7 year old daughter ‘weaned’ off of coming to sleep with me every night. She says she is ‘scared to be alone’ to sleep and no matter what I try to get her to find her room more intriguing, it doesn’t help because the root issue is that she afraid to sleep alone. It doesn’t help that her father always sleeps with her when she is at his home.(14:49)
4. How to meal plan for large family with 6 different diet requirements etc? (21:37)
5. We have the issue of our toddler mimicking other kids behaviours when we’re out or if we have his friends over for a play date. He gets so excited that he acts up and throws things which scares me since I don’t want his friends (or their parents) taking a dinosaur to the face! His other thing is that he’s so easily influenced by other children’s behaviour and it’s so difficult to discipline when he’s watching the other child(ren) misbehave without discipline. We often do playgroups and he’ll crash his car into someone’s tower of blocks because another child did it, I tell him he’s not allowed to drive cars since he wasn’t being safe and make him apologize to the other child for crashing the tower… meanwhile other kids are doing it and their caregivers aren’t acknowledging so he starts giggling and wants to continue crashing! Pulling my hair out! (23:49)
6. My 3 year old has recently started “baby talk” at random points during the day and then gets frustrated when we don’t give her what she’s asking for (she is going to be a big sister soon so I assume it has to do with that). (27:00)
7. My 20mo will demand things rather than ask, what is the best way to show we ask nicely/politely at such young age. It as to start young but I’m not sure how to make her understand without her getting upset. Also when does the “no” phase end?! (29:15)
8. How to talk to the school so teachers will listen and implement necessary strategies for special needs children (FASD)? (30:38)
9. How to deal with lying taking things without asking (stealing) or sneaking things? And what would be an appropriate consequence, as what we have tried has not worked. (6 yr old, so old enough to know the difference) (33:00)
10. How to loose teenage sarcasm? (34:36)
11. My 8 year old son, who has GAD, often worries about things that are not generally of concern for someone of his age, like time (if he will make it to school on time, if we are going to be late for a movie, or if I or his dad go out and take longer than expected). This has also become evident in play, for example, if we alot him time to play a video game or go to a friend’s house, he is very conscious of the time and becomes anxious when time is running out. When we attempt to talk to him about it, his choice of expressing himself is to say that we don’t care about him and that we don’t want him in our family (something we have never and would never say). (36:25)
12. My biggest issue is my 2.5 year old daughter rough housing with my 9 month old! She’s been really rough on him drive he was born. Nothing I do seems to help. She doesn’t really hit/bite him anymore, but now that he’s crawling and active she will pick him up, pull him, throw him if she can and I don’t get there on time. When she hugs him it’s not a hug, it’s her squeezing with all her might either around his chest or his neck! I’m at a loss….I feel like I’ve tried everything! (41:05)
13. My 3-year old doesn’t stop talking ever until we are in public. If we’re meeting someone for the first, going to the dentist/doctor, she’s too shy to open her mouth or even stand on the scale. People leave the room, she jumps on the scale and doesn’t stop talking. (43:50)
14. What do you do when your 2.5 year old hits you when they get upset. (Over everything!) (45:45)
15. Why do kids chew their fingernails? I got him to stop but I was at a loss as to why it started. My first didn’t do this. Was it confidence? was it related to cleanliness? (49:37)
