Dear Kerry,I love my little boy very much, but sometimes he just drives me crazy. He’s only 16 months old, but he’s into everything. When I can’t control him I feel like I’m at the end of my rope. Even when I spank him, he doesn’t seem to learn. I ...
Dear Kerry,When I visited my sister-in-law with my kids this weekend I was shocked to see what brats my nephews were. They whined all the time and then always got their way. What is she thinking of? This can’t be good for those kids!—JR, Detroit Dear JR,It’s hard to see ...
Dear Kerry,My brother and his family are going to join my family at our parents’ house for a week all together. I can already imagine that it may be difficult, since we have very different parenting styles. And my parents have their own expectations. In fact, I’m not even sure ...
You volunteer to chaperone a trip with your child’s class. When you receive the list of kids in your group, none of the names look familiar. After chatting with a coupe of parents, you discover that you have a couple of the kids who may have “behavior challenges.” What do ...
Dear Kerry,My 11-year-old is often cruel to his younger brother. I realize now that I shouldn’t have dismissed this as ordinary sibling stuff. This morning he punched his brother really hard over something trivial, and I don’t know where to start with this.-FT, Detroit Dear FT,This sounds painful and worrying ...
Dear Kerry,I just found out that my 16-year-old drank beer at a party with some of his friends. I am angry that the other parents were not supervising adequately and disapprove of the kids doing something illegal. But I am also very upset that my son engaged in this behavior ...
It is long since past time that the Ann Arbor school board moves toward a restorative justice model for our schools' disciplinary system. Over the past year, the children of two sets of friends have gotten into trouble giving me a chance to watch our current system in practice. In ...
Pump them up: A small but growing number of affluent parents are pressuring doctors to prescribe growth hormone shots for their short-ish but otherwise normal, healthy kids. According to the story: "Just last week, the father of a young baseball player -- a 14-year-old who was already 5 feet 6 ...
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