Question: My two-year-old has never been a big sleeper. She goes to bed between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. depending on how much of a fight she puts up. We have tried everything – bedtime routines, bath, snacks, naps during the day to no naps. Once she does fall asleep,...

My 19-month-old refuses to eat on her own. We know she can and have seen her use a fork and a spoon. Even when we know she’s hungry she’ll cry and carry on. I’ve tried taking her out of her chair and waiting, but she does the same thing....

My eight-year-old son still whines whenever he doesn’t get his way. At school he is doing extremely well and has no behavioural issues, but at home he turns into a whining machine. Any ideas? If you address the whining he has no reason to change and it will become his...

Question: I have a two-year-old boy and within the last month he has started not listening, pushing kids at daycare and overall misbehaving. He says “no” all the time. He used to be on his best behaviour at papa and grandma’s, but now he has tantrums there. My husband is...

Question: My son is two years old. We are starting with potty training right now. We are also hoping to put him in his big boy bed soon. I hope to have these two things accomplished in the next six months because we are taking a cruise and this would...

My son is eight and makes every bump or bruise into a huge ordeal. I have tried ignoring it, or instead congratulating him when he manages to get a scrape and doesn’t make it a huge issue. I am afraid that if he ever gets hurt I am not going...

Question: My son is eight months old and continually crawls to the TV and presses the buttons or slaps at the screen. We tell him ‘no’ and remove him from the TV but he is back at it within seconds. He knows what he is doing is wrong because when...

Question: Lately my four-and-a-half-year old has started lying about everything... washing his hands after using the bathroom, saying he didn't play with a certain toy when I ask him to pick it up.  What can I do to get him to understand why he should tell the truth? Answer: I would say...

Question: My 25-month-old daughter constantly picks at her belly button to the point of bleeding. The only way to stop this is to put her in onesies, which she is growing out of. Any suggestions to get her to stop? Answer: First, speak with your paediatrician to rule out anything of real...

Question: My son is two years old. Though he is an early riser, he goes to bed and sleeps quite well. However, he wakes every night sometime between 3 and 4 a.m. and wants a bottle. We only give him about 2 1/2 ounces of watered down milk, put him...