Whiny Meltdowns
Hi Miss Faith, I love love your blog and reading it often as I have a newly 3 year old and a 9 month old at home. I have a questing regarding whiny and near constant meltdowns with my 3 year old. We...
View ArticleMeltdowns and Tantrums
This is the second part of my response to the mom who wrote this letter: Hi Miss Faith, I love love your blog and reading it often as I have a newly 3 year old and a 9 month old at home. I have a...
View ArticleRaise a Balanced Child
One of the things that we can do to help our children find their place in in the world is to help them to become well-balanced. A wonderful way to think of this is in terms of virtues. Do they talk too...
View ArticleWhen they Can’t Have what they Want
Dear Miss Faith, I’m a nanny of two boys, and I’d love your advice on situations like this: The other morning, Joey came down for breakfast and he saw that his dad had put the little brother’s food on...
View ArticleSensory Integration
Dear Miss Faith, My 3 year old son seems to be developing issues which I think are linked to sensory integration. He has become a little obsessed about his hands, feet and face. He doesn’t want them...
View ArticleNeediness
Dear Miss Faith, My daughter just turned three and mostly things are fine, but her neediness is draining on me. It feels a bit like there’s a hole in her bucket, and I can’t fill it up somehow. I’m not...
View ArticleRepeating Questions Over and Over
Dear Miss Faith, My 2 year old repeats herself over and over and over again, to the point that i get soooooo frustrated. I mean i answer her in as many creative ways as i can think of. She kept saying...
View ArticleResponding to Ridiculous Demands
Dear Miss Faith, I have a 5yo, 3yo and 1yo. My challenge is with my 5yo, who sometimes wakes up whiney and just can’t seem to stop, often for 2 hrs or more. When this happens, nothing is right. For...
View ArticlePeaceful Car Trips
Dear Miss Faith, My 3.5 year old son gets upset when we’re driving and I turn or even change lanes, but he has decided that he doesn’t want me to. I’ve tried being light-hearted and turning it into a...
View ArticleWhiny Meltdowns
Hi Miss Faith, I love love your blog and reading it often as I have a newly 3 year old and a 9 month old at home. I have a questing regarding whiny and near constant meltdowns with my 3 year old. We...
View ArticleMeltdowns and Tantrums
This is the second part of my response to the mom who wrote this letter: Hi Miss Faith, I love love your blog and reading it often as I have a newly 3 year old and a 9 month old at home. I have a...
View ArticleRaise a Balanced Child
One of the things that we can do to help our children find their place in in the world is to help them to become well-balanced. A wonderful way to think of this is in terms of virtues. Do they talk too...
View ArticleWhen they Can’t Have what they Want
Dear Miss Faith, I’m a nanny of two boys, and I’d love your advice on situations like this: The other morning, Joey came down for breakfast and he saw that his dad had put the little brother’s food on...
View ArticleSensory Integration
Dear Miss Faith, My 3 year old son seems to be developing issues which I think are linked to sensory integration. He has become a little obsessed about his hands, feet and face. He doesn’t want them...
View ArticleNeediness
Dear Miss Faith, My daughter just turned three and mostly things are fine, but her neediness is draining on me. It feels a bit like there’s a hole in her bucket, and I can’t fill it up somehow. I’m not...
View ArticleRepeating Questions Over and Over
Dear Miss Faith, My 2 year old repeats herself over and over and over again, to the point that i get soooooo frustrated. I mean i answer her in as many creative ways as i can think of. She kept saying...
View ArticleResponding to Ridiculous Demands
Dear Miss Faith, I have a 5yo, 3yo and 1yo. My challenge is with my 5yo, who sometimes wakes up whiney and just can’t seem to stop, often for 2 hrs or more. When this happens, nothing is right. For...
View ArticlePeaceful Car Trips
Dear Miss Faith, My 3.5 year old son gets upset when we’re driving and I turn or even change lanes, but he has decided that he doesn’t want me to. I’ve tried being light-hearted and turning it into a...
View ArticleDemanding and Whiny 4-year-old
Dear Miss Faith, My son makes demands almost every time he talks. If I ask him to talk nice or say it nicely, he shouts out please. Then I say, please ask the whole thing in a nice voice. This gets him...
View ArticleDo You Like Your Toddler?
In observing families for my dissertation, I visited two families who on first glance were similar. Both had two-and-a half-year-old boys, and both moms did many of the actions I had observed that set...
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