"To love someone and, at the same time, to be afraid or nervous around them due to their unpredictability is very difficult. It also makes for very complicated grief, which is what you seem to be describing."

"With busy working schedules that don’t always lend themselves to the early bedtimes of very young children, we have to get creative with our playful connections and maximise those small windows of playtime we might be getting each day."

"I wonder if your daughter is more of a ‘selective eater’ than a ‘fussy eater’, and she is refusing what she would previously have eaten because it doesn’t fit within her new fitness goals."

Children start to lie around three years old when they realise their parents are not mind readers and don’t know everything

Is this just a phase? We are afraid he will miss out on wonderful opportunities in the future if he deems it a win-lose scenario

"He once had all your undivided attention, and now he must share it with his sibling. He understandably resents that right now. And I agree with you that he will adjust, albeit this is taking him some time."

"Entitlement starts with wanting something. That want quickly becomes a need. When we need something and another person withholds that from us, we get angry, even enraged, because we believe we are entitled to have our needs met."

I'm doing my best to be patient, but it's very difficult to see them hanging around the house when the rest of the family is working flat out

"What matters in a family is that everyone’s needs are met as best as possible. Of course, every child differs, and some present with more pronounced needs, requiring a higher response level."

The truth is she has never enjoyed school except for the days when they do art