Behavior and Discipline
Fearful Kids
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Fantasies, Fears and Phobias, Behavior and Discipline
PSP members share how they managed their anxious and fearful children.
Dealing with a Diaper Strike
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Potty Training, Behavior and Discipline
PSP members offer their advice on how to keep babies from taking off their diapers.
From Princesses to Girl Warriors
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: General Parenting Advice, Behavior and Discipline, Gender Issues
How do you grow a strong, confident girl?
Sibling Rivalry: The Big Sister Perspective
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: General Parenting Advice, Siblings, Behavior and Discipline
A discussion about making sure we don't fuel the fire of Sibling Rivalry....
Getting Kids to Help
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
How do you get kids to help clean up?
Advice about Monsters and Other Scary Things
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
PSP advice from parents about how to deal with issues related to being scared of monsters and other scary things.
Thumbsucking
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
Got a thumbsucker? Read this advice for help!
Teeth Brushing
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline, Kid Related Health
Ideas to get your little ones to polish their pearly whites! Also included is advice about how not to swallow toothpaste.
Boys who like Dresses
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
Advice about gender identity and how to sensitively handle boys who like girls dresses.
Hitting (15 month old)
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
Advice on what to do about hitting and pawing behavior.
On Having and Being an Only Child
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline, Growing Families, Siblings
The pros and cons of having only one child.
Princess Predicament: Books, Music, Movies, and Advice from PSP Members
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline, Gender Issues
Books, movies, music, website links and parenting tips that dispel the myths.
Temper Tantrums, Terrible Twos, and Taming a Toddler
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
Summary of suggestions on handling extreme tantrums of toddlers / 1.5 - 2 year olds...
It's not fair!
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
How to explain the complicated issue of fairness to our kids!
Boob-Groping
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
Advice to handing a child who gropes boobs!
Stroller Strike
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
Help for a 3.5 month old who doesn't like riding in the stroller.
Boys and Guns
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline, Fantasies, Fears and Phobias
PSP members share their insight about boys and obsessions with guns.
Sibling Rivalry
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline, Siblings
"Our son has zero interest in his baby sister, and sometimes pushes her out of the way," a PSP member shares. Here is advice about how you can help build the sibling bond.
Challenging 4-year-old behavior
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
How to deal when disappointment, hurt feelings, and frustration cause meltdowns.
Biting
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
What to do when kids use their teeth for more than eating. This article features three different, real life scenarios of PSP member experiences, as well as various advice from over the years.
Refusing to Go Up and Down Stairs
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
You live in a fourth-floor walkup. The kid won't budge. What now?
Handling Hurtful Kids
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
What do you do when your child hurts your feelings either by stating preference over one parent, saying mean things or worse, becomes physically aggressive towards you? According to Parents in the PSP community this can be a normal part of a child’s development. Here are tips from local moms and dads about how to get through this tough time.
Nail Biting - How To Bite The Habit!
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
Ideas, tips, and suggestion to get YOU or YOUR KID from biting nails…
Tips to Not Losing Lovies
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline, Fantasies, Fears and Phobias
Tips for not losing a lovie...
What To Do When Temper Tantrums Are Extreme
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- Category: Behavior and Discipline
PSP parents discuss handling tantrums.
"Hit Me Baby One More Time": Advice For When Your Toddler Hits You
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- Category: Behavior and Discipline
Whether it is biting, hitting or tantrums - here is advice from PSP members about what to do when your child is all fisticuffs and frustration.
Bullying in Pre-K
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
PSP parents discuss bullying in Pre-K aged, 4-year-old children.
Books and Resources for Handling Kids and Aggressive Play
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline, Fantasies, Fears and Phobias
Parents share some reading materials and their takeawys about coping with kids and aggressive play/ rough housing.
Playground problems - how to handle a bully the right way
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline, Managing Urban Life
A PSP member writes.: "I'm writing more for my husband than for myself - but in any event I'm hoping for some insight from the collective about an ugly incident that happened this weekend. He can't shake his anger and frustration and honestly, I'm bothered by it too and would love to hear some thoughts on the matter..."
Thrilling Threes
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
Forget terrible twos, what to do with the thrilling threes?
Managing Difficult Behaviors with Small Brooklyn Psychology
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- Parent Category: Parenting Advice
- Category: Behavior and Discipline
We recently held a webinar with Jill DiPietro, LCSW, at Small Brooklyn Psychology to address some of the behavioral challenges that may be exacerbated in the age of Covid. Read on for notes on breaking the coercive cycle, modeling positive behaviors, and more.
How Young Is Too Young to Attend Concerts?
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- Parent Category: Activities Advice Articles
- Category: Kid Friendly New York , Activities Advice Articles, Behavior and Discipline
Park Slope Parents was invited to take part in a roundtable discussion about whether young children should attend concerts.
Chores (the Tween Version): How to Get into the Habit by Kristian Orozco
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- Parent Category: Parents of Tweens
- Category: Tween Advice from Experts, Behavior and Discipline
It is never too early or too late for kids to help out with household chores. Children, like most people, have the need to feel a sense of belonging and significance. What better way to give your kids a sense of belonging and significance than by making them valued contributing members of the family. And by having your kids contribute with household chores, you also give them the opportunity to learn cooperation and responsibility.
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