You parents out there with excitable, happy, bouncy children may be able to relate to today’s parent puzzler. Take a look and let me know what you think I recommended to Stephen’s mother…

Stephen is 7 years old and in…

Marie brought 8 year old Sidney in stating that she had been having a cough for 6 months. Marie brought her to an Urgent Care one month earlier and the doctor gave her antibiotics. The antibiotics helped a little, Marie…

A special shout-out to my readers that commented that they suspected bullying as the root of Maddy’s mystery.

Here is what happened:

Maddy’s mother brought her to the doctor, who also confirmed that he didn’t find anything physically wrong…

POST UPDATED with my advice.  Click below to jump to my answer:

Sometimes the toughest questions from our kids are the ones that catch us off-guard, make us do a double-take and leave us really scratching our heads about what…

I’ve got another parent puzzler for you today. Discipline questions are some of the toughest, I think.  Parents of my patients are always asking what they should do to “fix” their back-talking 6 year old, their tantrum-throwing 3 year old…

I love parent puzzlers.  They help me answer some of the most common parent conundrums and also give me the opportunity to hear from all you lovely (and smart!) folks out there.

I’m testing you today, readers–here’s a tough one:…

WOW. I love everyone’s answers to Wednesday’s parent puzzler. Several of you had been in similar predicaments yourself and others had some really insightful, thought-provoking tidbits.  Ok, you’re probably wondering what I told Sam’s mom…

This morning I decided we should play another parent puzzler.  It’s always fun to hear from parents about how they’d handle a certain parenting dilemma.  Here’s a situation I’ve seen several times in my office:

Sam is seven years old.…

Wow! I have the brightest, best readers out there.

The advice that you all suggested for “Hannah’s” parents was so insightful and I’m proud and humbled that some of your thoughts about the subject were founded in the topics I…