Topic : General Advice

My 13 month old daughter is the exact same way! She is very hyper and it seems like she never runs out of energy. I don't even try to hold her because I know she would not let me, it makes me kind of sad. When I tell her no she will listen sometimes or sometimes she will just completely ignore me. It can be very frustrating having to repeat yourself over and over but I have found that if I consistently tell her "no" or don't touch" when she is doing something wrong she will eventually understand. I understand your concern because I use to wonder the same thing about my daughter, "are all kids really like this?" I think that most are but some are just more curious and energetic than others. Also children at this age learn a lot by touching things. My suggestions for you would be to take your grand daughter somewhere where she can run wild, such as a playground or the indoor playgrounds where everything is cushioned, that will ease your mind a little bit.I took my daughter a couple of weeks ago to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese for the first time and she loved it. She loved being around other kids and there were so many fun toys and games that she was allowed to touch, and with most of the games she just loved pushing all the buttons that I didn't even need to use tokens. I hope that that will help you out a little bit. Also to the other person who replied how would you do a time out for a child this age? I have been thinking about trying that but I wasn't sure if it would even work.

I have a 5 month old daughter.  She was born premature, but doing very well.  She sleeps actually very well through the night, maybe wakes up 2-3 times early in the morning.  My husband or I give her her nuk, turn on her mobile and let her fall back to sleep which she does very well.  During the day she get's EXTREMELY crabby, and I know she is tired.  I rock her (probably for too long) and every time I go to put her down so I'm not holding her the whole time, she wakes up right away or within 15 min and won't go back to sleep.  She takes probably 5-6 small cat naps through out the day and is very crabby between those naps.  I don't know how to get her to go to sleep or stay asleep once she is.  How do I get her to sleep without me rocking her and her not getting too upset?

Everytime my  almost two year old goes to her grandmas house (my mom)  she comes back with stained up clothes. I pack bibs which come back perfectly clean, imagine that.  I have had discussions with my mother about this issue and she always says something about "this is meme's house and at meme's house they can get dirty."  I am not wealthy by no means at all and I cant afford to constantly be replacing clothes.  I just think this issue is a matter of respect.  So, again this morning I talked to my mom about this because yet another time her brand new t shirt came back covered in mac a roni.  Her response was... I dont know why you even bother telling me this it isnt like anything is going to change.  Then she says it is just a t shirt anyway.  To me it is waisted money out of my pocket.  I understand accidents happen but these are no accidents.  Someone please HELP I need advice bad.  I feel so dis respected.

the first thing that i would do if i was in your situation would want to call your pediatrician. He or she will have the best answers hopefully. my daughter did sleep with me until she was 12 months. I would wake up and put her back in her bed every time until she started sleeping on her own. She would also cry a lot but i always gave her a bottle. i sometimes rocked her until she started to fall asleep then put her in her bed. Then i started her on whole milk and she didn't get up anymore. i learned with  my second one not to have him sleep with me.

I have a 4 year old son who has erections all the time, especially if he sees his mom naked. He then just wants to touch me, I don't make a big issue of it, just try to tell him it's not very nice to do. Is this normal?

I have had two children grow out of bitting. I know it's frusterating but they won't bite forever. one thing you can try is say OHUH in a singsong voice take them away from the situation. good luck and it will end.

Our daughter goes from one addiction after another.  She lives with her husband and 3-1/2 year old son and has abused pain drugs for more that 4 years.  Two years ago she had a seizure and that is when we found out.  She was buying drugs over the internet and in debt of about $25,000.  She is somewhat better, but we still are not sure how she really is.  She swears she's not on any more drugs, and she says she has to have a pain patch due to her back pain and Topomax due to the seizure and who knows what else.  She talks like a zombie half the time.  Her husband believes her and she is suppose to have back surgery in November.  I think she needs outside help, but she says she is okay.  What can we do???