My just-turned-4yo son started biting his fingernails a few months before he turned 4. I talked to hid ped at his 4-year checkup, and she recommended the nasty-tasting stuff to put on his fingernails. So we tried that, but a) He said that after it dried awhile it tasted like pancake syrup, so it...

Hi, I have a 5 month old that likes to pull his blanket over his head, then falls asleep. Will that cause SIDS? His blanket is fleese and he can breath through it, but I still worry. When I check on him every night after we fall asleep, he has it over his head. I think he likes it because its...

We're not planning to do this, but someone asked this question on another board and I was surprised how every single response was along the lines of "How could one even think of such a thing?! That's no place for a baby!"" Now, it'd probably be better for the parents without the baby (less hassle,...

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My 5 month old wakes up to 4 times a night. He drinks 5 6oz bottles a day along with 2 tbsp of rice cereal in morning & night and 1-2 tsp veggies twice a day. We try our best to keep a routine B4 bedtime. Also I have tried to let him cry himself to sleep but he seems to cry for 45mins to an hour...

Read this one and you will know how to keep your child busy & do things at your pace. http://www.mybaby.com/Journal/dustbunny/Item/4148/5_ways_to_distract_your_young_preschooler_toddler.htm

Hi, In the heat of the moment... My 5 year old sometimes has problems sleeping through the night. She complains she just wants her mother and that she is scared. However, when her mom is working nights, shes fine and doesn't give me any problems. My wife is home more often than not and this...

Hi, I'm kind of at a loss as to where to turn, but I'm having some troubles here... My son is 5, and there's some things that I just don't know how to deal with or approach... We were in a pretty bad car accident on Feb. 2, 2006. Car is a write off, and anyways, we all walked away fairly lucky. ...

My Ds is soon to be five and is currently enrolled in a preschool program (3 days a week/ half days in a play based program). He also is receiving speech therapy (since 21 months) for expressive language difficulties (primarily articulation). He is characterized as being a shy, reserved, and...

Hi all Our 5 year old girl is displaying very nervous habits, such as thumb sucking, hair twirling etc. She has done the thumb/hair twirling since birth, substituting her own hair for her mothers once her mother got tired of the knots. We have been patiently just waiting without trying to draw to...

I just discovered a small lump on the back of my 5 year old daughters head that's about the size of a bean or a very large raisin. It's hard and non-moveable. It's parallel to the ear towards the back/bottom/left of her head. Almost feels like part of her head but it definitely protruding and...

My five year old has recently started waking and coming to my room in the middle of the night saying he had a "bad dream". I'm not sure if it is just an excuse or if he is really scared. I usually comfort him and send him back to his room as not to encourage the behavior. Any suggestions on...

My 5 year old has recently gotten up every night claiming he had a bad dream. I am not sure if he is making it up or if he is really scared. I comfort him and send him back to bed as not to encourage the behavior. Any suggestions for helping him sleep through the night?

My 5 year old daughter has a cavity in her last lower back molar tooth. My general dentist diagnosed it with a digital x-ray and said it was deep, just nearing the root. We can also visibly see the blackness on the top of the crown. This will require local anethesia to numb her mouth during...

This is my first post, and it's on behalf of a friend. Her oldest son is nearly 5 and still uses a pacifier. He doesn't take it into preschool or anywhere people might see him (he gets embarrassed) but he uses it in the car, when he's lounging around the house, when he's playing and when he goes to...

But my 2 year old had me up at 4:30 am. can't win 'em all. Has anyone experienced a change in sleep for a toddler? He's usually a great sleeper at night but lately he wakes up crying in the night. SOmetimes he goes back to sleep sometimes he comes to find me. Last night after he sounded pretty...

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Situation: About 2.5 weeks ago my wife and I had taken our daughter to a neighborhood bookstore. My 5yr old daughter while getting out of a raised chair lost her balance and fell out hitting her head on a neighboring metal shelf. Point of impact was above her eyebrow on right side of forehead....

First a little history... DD #2 had a problem with gas. We started using Dr. Brown's bottles and Soy-based Similac when she was 3 weeks old. At 3 months we successfully switched her to regular Similac. At around 5 months we tried to switch to Avent bottles but they kept leaking on us so we...