Parent Advice Line - Topics Related to Behavior
The Children’s Hospital’s Parent Advice Line provides you with the quick tips you need on over 275 topics related to the health of your infant, child or teenager. These free and confidential messages have been developed by Dr. Bart Schmitt, a pediatrician at The Children’s Hospital.
- Find the topic you are interested in below.
- Dial 720-777-6543 or 800-613-4130.
- Enter the 4 digit code associated with the topic you are interested in to hear the recorded message.
Discipline Problems
Family Issues and Problems
Other Behavior
School Issues and Problems
Sleep Problems
Teenagers
Toilet Training/Bedwetting
Discipline Problems
- Biting x8800
- Demands constant entertainment x8801
- Guidelines for consequences x8803
- Guidelines for setting rules x8804
- Hitting and fighting x8805
- "I hate you" x8806
- Interrupting you on the telephone x8807
- Interrupts guests x8808
- Lying x8809
- Mine: Won’t share toys x8802
- Misbehavior at the supermarket x8810
- Refusing to get dressed on time x8811
- Runs away from you x8812
- Saying "No" to kids x8813
- Screaming x8814
- Siblings who argue and fight x8815
- Spanking x8816
- Spoiled kids: Preschoolers x8817
- Spoiled kids: Toddlers x8819
- Stealing x8820
- Stubborn kids: Preschoolers x8821
- Stubborn kids: Toddlers x8822
- Swearing x8823
- Temper tantrums: Toddler and preschooler x8824
- The terrible twos x8825
- Time-out: The best response for aggressive behavior x8826
- Time-out: How to give one x8827
- Time-out refusal: School age children x8828
- Time-out refusal: Toddlers and preschoolers x8829
- Time-out: When it doesn’t work x8830
- Unfastens the seat belt x8831
- Whining x8832
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Family Issues and Problems
- Christmas time x8890
- Divorce: Helping children cope x8891
- Fears of natural disasters: Home treatment x8892
- Fears of natural disasters: Prevention x8893
- Grandparents and grandchildren x8894
- Halloween x8895
- Hanukkah time x8590
- Quality family time x8896
- Santa Claus x8897
- Thanksgiving x8898
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Other Behavior
- Masturbation: Toddlers and preschoolers x8920
- Nudity and your child x8921
- Sex education: Preschoolers x8922
- Sexual play: Normal x8923
- Shyness x8924
- Speech: Hard to understand speech x8925
- Thumbsucking: Toddlers x8926
- Tics and facial twitches x8881
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School Issues and Problems
- ADD: Educational treatment x8585
- ADD: Home treatment x8855
- ADD: How to recognize x8586
- ADD: Imitators x8587
- ADD: Ritalin treatment x8588
- Hyperactivity and sugar x8850
- School phobia x8851
- School underachiever: Preteen x8852
- School underachiever: Teenagers x8853
- Schoolwork: Teaching responsibility x8854
- Short attention span: Prevention in preschoolers x8856
- TV dependency: Prevention x8857
- Video game craze x8858
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Sleep Problems
- Bedtime refusal x8770
- Early morning riser x8771
- Night terrors x8772
- Nightmares x8773
- Nightmares and violent movies x8774
- Nighttime awakening: Infants x8775
- Nighttime awakening: Toddlers x8776
- Pacifiers x8580
- Sleep problems: Prevention x8777
- Sleeping with the parents: Infants x8778
- Sleeping with the parents: Toddlers and preschoolers x8779
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Teenagers
- Teenagers: House rules x8875
- Teenagers: No-win issues x8876
- Teenagers: Talking back x8877
- Teenagers: Teaching responsibility x8878
- Teenagers: What’s abnormal x8879
- Teenagers: What’s normal x8880
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Toilet Training / Bedwetting
- Bedwetting: Preschooler x8790
- Bedwetting: Preteen x8791
- Bedwetting: Teenagers x8792
- Toilet training made easy x8793
- Toilet training readiness x8794
- Toilet training refusal x8795
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