Parent Advice Online - Topics Related to Behavior

The Children’s Hospital’s Parent Advice Online provides you with the quick tips you need on over 275 topics related to the health of your infant, child or teenager. This information has been developed by Dr. Bart Schmitt, a pediatrician at The Children’s Hospital.

Discipline Problems
Family Issues and Problems
Other Behavior
School Issues and Problems
Sleep Problems
Teenagers
Toilet Training/Bedwetting

Discipline Problems

• Biting
• Demands constant entertainment
• Guidelines for consequences
• Guidelines for setting rules
• Hitting and fighting
• "I hate you"
• Interrupting you on the telephone
• Interrupts guests
• Lying
• Mine: Won’t share toys
• Misbehavior at the supermarket
• Refusing to get dressed on time
• Runs away from you
• Saying "No" to kids
• Screaming
• Siblings who argue and fight
• Spanking
• Spoiled kids: Preschoolers
• Spoiled kids: Toddlers
• Stealing
• Stubborn kids: Preschoolers
• Stubborn kids: Toddlers 
• Swearing
• Temper tantrums: Toddler and preschooler
• The terrible twos
• Time-out: The best response for aggressive behavior
• Time-out: How to give one
• Time-out refusal: School age children
• Time-out refusal: Toddlers and preschoolers
• Time-out: When it doesn’t work
• Unfastens the seat belt
• Whining

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Family Issues and Problems

• Christmas time
• Divorce: Helping children cope
• Fears of natural disasters: Home treatment
• Fears of natural disasters: Prevention
• Grandparents and grandchildren
• Halloween
• Hanukkah time 
• Quality family time
• Santa Claus
• Thanksgiving

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Other Behavior

• Masturbation: Toddlers and preschoolers
• Nudity and your child
• Sex education: Preschoolers 
• Sexual play: Normal
• Shyness
• Speech: Hard to understand speech
• Thumbsucking: Toddlers 
• Tics and facial twitches

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School Issues and Problems

• ADHD: Educational treatment
• ADHD: Home treatment
• ADHD: How to recognize
• ADHD: Imitators
• ADHD: Ritalin treatment
• Hyperactivity and sugar
• School phobia 
• School underachiever: Preteen 
• School underachiever: Teenagers
• Schoolwork: Teaching responsibility
• Short attention span: Prevention in preschoolers
• TV dependency: Prevention 
• Video game craze

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Sleep Problems

• Bedtime refusal
• Early morning riser
• Night terrors
• Nightmares
• Nightmares and violent movies
• Nighttime awakening: Infants
• Nighttime awakening: Toddlers 
• Pacifiers
• Sleep problems: Prevention
• Sleeping with the parents: Infants
• Sleeping with the parents: Toddlers and preschoolers

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Teenagers

• Teenagers: House rules
• Teenagers: No-win issues
• Teenagers: Talking back 
• Teenagers: Teaching responsibility 
• Teenagers: What’s abnormal
• Teenagers: What’s normal

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Toilet Training / Bedwetting

• Bedwetting: Preschooler
• Bedwetting: Preteen
• Bedwetting: Teenagers 
• Toilet training made easy
• Toilet training readiness 
• Toilet training refusal

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