child psychology

My 3YO son, about 2 months ago, started having intense panic attacks when my husband’s truck is on. Background: I am a stay at home parent, my husband works. My 16 month old daughter stays home with me all day, and my 3 year old son goes to preschool from 7:30-11:15 M-F, and the rest of his...

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My younger kid is 2 yrs and 10 months old. She has been a very shy kid, takes a lot of time to become comfortable around strangers, gets scared easily for silly things. Till she was 2.5 yrs old, she was a very easy going kid. She would play with her toys for hours, she would indicate she is...

I have a 5 year old, 4 year old and a 1 year old. They all have the same father and my oldest is the only one that actually knows who he is or wants to see him. He was gone for a year and briefly came back for maybe a month during court to get custody and out of child support and after they gave...

My friends son is 3.5 years old. She also has a 2 year old son and they love to play together. They are very friendly and well integrated with other kids. Her and her husband have a great relationship and there’s no fighting or raising voices in the house. Yesterday, her 3.5 year old slapped...

Hello, As a Montessori teacher with four years of experience, my passion for child development has driven me to explore a career shift towards child psychology. Specifically, I'm deeply interested in the areas of ADHD and the Polyvagal Theory. (I have ADD myself). I'm investigating both...

This link to a progressive muscle relaxation exercise can help kids with anxiety or excess stress relax. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8w0h051kKg

A bit of background about her, she’s coming from a very troubled background. Previous sex abuse, she’s grown up in a broken household with a revolving door of new parental figures and people on drugs. She’s seven, doesn’t trust anyone or let anyone close to her. She’s aggressive at times...

Hey Reddit, We're in a dire situation with our 7-year-old daughter and we desperately need advice and support. Over the past week, our family has been barely hanging on through her meltdowns, getting only 1 to 5 hours of sleep a night, and making 2 ER visits. She has always had high anxiety and...

child (3M) stopped breastfeeding from mom (24f) a couple months after his baby brother (5mo,M) was born. Boy gropes the mom, touches/pinches nipples, finds excuses just to touch. Getting to the point where it’s seems obsessive and the child/mom need to even sleep separately? Mom has expressed to...

Hi everyone! I am looking for parents of children aged between 2 and 6 years old to complete the survey below. Data will be used for my MSc Developmental Psychology research - all participant data will be completely confidential and anonymised. Thank you in advance...

I (F, 18) have a little brother (M, 7) who is one of the most difficult kids i have come across and no i dont say that lightly. for some context, in no way shape or form are our parents amazing, no, i am doing everything i can in my power to be out of the house as soon as i finish 12th grade...

I’m a psychology major. This week for my assignment I have to ask people in the field about their journey into their profession. Positive and negative aspects of the job and any advice you have. I would love to hear what y’all have to say!

ok this may sound a bit confusing so bare with me here please lol. so i, even as a very young kid, never had the ability to imagine certain things and create scenarios like the other kids did while playing. for example when playing with dolls, other kids would make different voices for them...

My little boy does not want to go to sleep at night. He says that he is scared someone will take me, that spiders will get me, that Freddy or Jason will come hurt me (I did NOT let him watch scary movies. That was his dad during his time with them). A little background. His father and I...

How do I talk about death to a child? My son's (1 y.o.) loving and wonderful father died from a heroin overdose in 2020. I will never be the same but my son will not remember this happening to us, he was only 6 months old when he passed away. I want him to grow up always knowing the truth about...

Trying to not be biased but my kid is actually a pretty one, in fact he is quite popular at kindergarten, but out of nowhere he started saying he didn't like his face and he is quite specific about it. He says he doesn't like his eyes and the shape of his head and he even gets a bit emotional...

So my 6 year old son loves to draw and is rather good at it for his age, however, his drawings depict dark imagery based off of Christianity and Satanism. He's never been exposed to anything like it but he somehow draws it. We aren't a church family so I'm worried and confused.

For context, my brother has not been officially diagnosed but has all the characteristics of bp and narcissism. Without getting into too many details, father basically takes out his frustration on his son, constantly criticizing him in everything he does, only focuses on his negatives, he speaks...

I try to make it short and specific as possible. I’m 29, f, I live abroad with my boyfriend, 31. We live in his country with my daughter (his step daughter), and my son (his son) My daughter still to this day does not know that my boyfriend is her step father. He stepped into our lives since I...