child psychology

She was hitting and pushing her and yelled in her face.

So we have K (12m) and S (8m). Parents divorced, prefer mom, dad was mentally/physically abusive. The younger one likes his dad and the older one wants almost nothing to do with him. Because of the abuse K has almost no self esteem, eating problems, and is extremely introverted. The dad has a...

Child psychologists of reddit, please help. I know the answer I want may not be the right answer, I figured I’d ask anyway and hope I’m in a place to listen. I am the step-dad of a 9 year old girl. She was diagnosed with ADHD ~3 years ago. Her biological dad was also diagnosed with ADHD as a...

Hello Everyone, I'm a student conducting university-level research and would greatly appreciate if you all could participate in my surveys. I created 2: One for parents, and one for children of parents (open to all ages). The purpose of both is to see possible correlations between parenting...

Join us for some short research games with the Columbia University Social and Moral Cognition Lab! We're interested in learning how children think about others and our lab's current study takes approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. All studies will take place via Zoom and children...

I’m going to do the best I can to give as much supporting information about my situation as possible. My son is 2.5 years old. His communication and vocabulary isn’t very good but it is improving. We are peaking terrible two status. Myself, 34 female has a ex fiancée in prison. We are no...

My son (13) has been seeing a therapist for the last 2 months. Part of the reason that we started therapy was because he has exhibited behavior whereas he would get hyper fixated on something and be obsessed with it. He would research it, he would plan for obtaining it, abs then he would save...

My nephew is 6 years old and constantly telling people that he likes pain. He’s been like this since he could talk, trying to jump off of things or ask other kids to kick/hit him. He’s also hurting others. For example, he was laying down on the couch next to my mother and he proceeded to kick...

Hey all, I'll try to keep the context succinct. I've been primary caregiver of my almost 8 year old son for the last 4 years, been separated from his mom for almost 7. Her and I live about 4.5 hours travel from each other. Our life is good! My partner and him get along really well, and he's a...

I need some help regarding my daughter. She’s being accused of behaving inappropriately by 2 other girls. I’ll try to give as much context as I can. One girl told the other girl that my daughter suggested while playing a game that the mom in the game should have S with the pretend dad. My...

My nephew is 5yrs old now. We observed some of his peculiar habits which he often does voluntarily/involuntarily (we don't know). Activities observed : 1. Over excitement : played air hockey with him (he plays quite well) and he gets involved too much, which ig is fine. But his movement...

Hello. I am an adult survivor of child neglect and abuse. Like many of us, I had no idea how bad what I was experiencing was at the time it was happening. Part of the abuse was scapegoating and playing the role of identified patient. I was put in therapy around 8/9 years old due to “behavioral...

This isn't the typical "asking for a friend" post...I really am asking for a friend. A friend I know has a 10 year old daughter, 5 year old daughter and 17 year old step son. The two girls live together with my friend and het husband (the girls' dad) and the step son lives with his mom. This...

Yesterday my wife (33F) and I (37M) were in a catastrophic motor vehicle collision (MVC) that totaled her car. It instantly caught on fire and within 5 minutes, the car and all our possessions inside were incinerated. Fortunately we are both ok. We were on the way to pick our daughter (4F)...

Hi there. I want to help my son but not sure of the best approach. Possibly relevant context: he is dyslexic and dyspraxic and may also have ASD traits/has some sensory processing stuff. He very often is scared at bedtime and struggles to go to sleep. The way he describes it is that bad...

Hey y’all this is my first time posting here. I work at a summer camp and there is this kid in the age group I work with, we’ll call him Gabe. Gabe has no medical needs/diagnosis’s listed by his guardians, but it is very obvious that he has special needs that need to be met. He’s a sweet kid...

Hi All, TIA for any advice on helping my 9 year old daughter with some introversion issues. I've never sought advice of this sort in a public forum so please advise if these are concerns I need to take to a professional. I'm the father to a wonderful, beautiful, intelligent 9 y.o. daughter...

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At my sister place for Thanksgiving this weekend, and waked in on my daughter completely naked(5,f) . The eldest (9f) said she wasn’t naked, which later turned out to be a lie. The 6year old other sister has been naked too. They apparently dance naked together, and that is it. This is the second...

I'm going to begin having one-on-one sessions with a girl who, as the title says, has images accepting her body (she's developed quickly and it's made her feel insecure as she looks different). She also has issues not always being chosen to be played with. I'd like to work with her -...