My 12 yr old has been diagnosed with adhd when he was 6yrs old and has been medicated. He's had anger issues I've assumed becuz his father & I split. Since Ive remarried and his biolgical father has been out of his life til recently hes trying to get back in thru the courts after 3 yrs of not seeing him. My son refuses to see him so I fighting f
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Recently I was at a family function, where a relative who has was teaching thier grandchild to point at other people and laugh. I found this disturbing to me i know that this may be nothing but I think that teaching a one year old child that this is a normal behavior is inappropriate. I feel that for anyone at any age to do this is inappropriate.
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I had a dream that i was visiting a carnival.. there was a 18 year old boy that worked there that I became friends with after three days he told me he love me and I told him no , that I was married and pregnant .. then later that night my husband came in a threw a pregnancy test at me and told me if it came back postive he was goin to leave me ca
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our son remarried when his little girl was 2, now she is 13 and her and the stepmother got into a bad arguement and the stepmother slaped her numoris times. now she hates her dad and stepmother because he took his wives side. the real mother called the law and reported it which made it sound worese than it was. I can't get the grandaughter to lov
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My daughter, who is 14 years old, texts non-stop on her cell phone to her friends every day, but mainly to her boyfriend. She is made to put it up on school nights around 10:00 and can't use it while doing homework. (I have a 10 year-old son whose teen years I have yet to experience - so I will not mention him on this topic)
My 16 year old son's behavior has gotten increasingly hostile in the past year. He is disrespectful, rebellious,aggressive. He will not speak to us or do anything we ask him to. He will throw things and punch holes in walls when he doesn't get his way. He refuses to see a doctor or therapist. While he is now refusing to do homework and is f
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I had a dream last night that i was living at home with my parents and that my room was full of baby stuff that friends and family had given me, I dont know if I was pregnect or alrady had the baby?
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So I had this dream I was pregnant and it looked and felt pretty real (I can feel things in my dreams, which is cool until I'm being chased by someone with a knife x.x)...anyway yea some of you might think oh hey that sounds pretty cool maybe it's a sign that your ready to have a baby...plz no I'm only 16 x[...yeah but even in my dream I didn'
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My 16yr old child has an intellectual impariment. She has characteristic of ASD although I have not taken her to be tested/diagnosed. She has mild speech dyspraxia. She has an imaginary friend that she talks to. When she talks back (as the imaginary friend) her speech is perfect. Should I be worried?
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