‘Parenting and Children’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 5

Q: I’ve been dating my boyfriend now for about 6 months. We are both mature adults in our mid-40s and have never been married before. My boyfriend told me he babysat an ex-girlfriend’s child from birth until his current age of 6 years old. He claims to have had the boy about 50% of the [...]

Q: I’m a guy and have a girlfriend who is 20 years old. We met about four months ago and became very close friends. Her mother and brother, who is one year older, are both bipolar. She just had her first child three weeks ago. She has been through a lot in her young life [...]

Q: My 12-year-old son began having panic attacks about eight weeks ago. He said he could not breath, so we took him to a pediatrician who checked out his breathing and said that he felt that he was having anxiety and put him on 25 mg of Zoloft. A few weeks went by, and he [...]

Q: I am a 30-year-old single mother of two school-aged children. I am struggling to be the best mother I can be in a situation that is far from ideal. I try very hard to remain positive and focused on my children’s needs as well as my own, and I have hope for what the [...]

Q: My husband lies all the time. He lies about everything and nothing. When we first met, he lied about being single. When I learned the truth and confronted him, he said he was “set up” because people were simply against us. I didn’t really believe him at the time, but I stayed with him [...]