‘Parenting and Children’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 84

Q: I’m writing in response to the person who asked you for advice regarding their abusive father. I am in the same position, although I am still accepting that I have an abusive parent (this is my Mother). I have decided to detach from the family because of my Mother, but I am still in [...]

Q: I am a 34-year-old woman who just got married for the first time a few months ago. I met this guy I work with seven years ago. We have lived together and finally just got married. We just went and did it. No family or anything. We’ve now been married 2 months. His ex-wife [...]

Q: When my little girl gets terrible tantrums I have to play Rob Zombie music to get her to calm down. This calms her and puts her to sleep. This started before she was born when she would get really active I would play this and she would slow down. Why does just that music [...]

Q: I am an Asian female student, poor background, uneducated parents. I know my parents love me and want nothing but the best for me…but I can’t help resenting them for the way they raised me…mostly isolated (fear of bad influences from other people). I’d always been a good student, straight A’s throughout school…but I [...]

Q: I’ve known a girl now for 2 years. We started dating when she was 17, and her parents found out about it and they separated us for 3 months. Now she’s 18 and she is allowed to see me, but they often tell her that she needs to end this relationship and they know [...]