meghan leahy advice

4 min read 2022-07-06 20:42:44

Grandma is tired of cooking for all of her grandson’s friends

Q: My 14-year-old grandson is an only child. He’s kind, loyal and easygoing, and children gravitate toward him. He’s on his own after

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Q: I’m having second thoughts about the people we asked to take our child if we were to die. We have a 6-year-old. We are late-in-life

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Q: Baby No. 3 is arriving in October. I have a daughter who will be 7 and a 4-year-old son. My son is very attached to me, and although I think

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Q: Hi, Finished your wonderful book, and already feel more confident! The focus on connection really resonated with me. So here’s where we are

3 min read 2022-06-08 21:07:07

Q: I’m a single mom to two daughters, 20 and 17. I adopted both from China, three years apart. I always wanted to adopt, and once I heard

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Q: My kids are 6 and 8. All I hear from other parents is how stressed out and burdened they are. I couldn’t agree more. Parents are dropping

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Q: My son just found out he didn’t get into his first choice of college. I’m not surprised, because he didn’t care enough about his grades

3 min read 2022-05-19 00:54:34

Q: How do you teach a 6-year-old gratitude? Because of the pandemic, we haven’t taken him to volunteer at food banks, although he has picked

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Q: I’m concerned about my husband’s relationship with our 18-year-old daughter. She is about to graduate from high school and will leave for

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Meghan Leahy, a parenting coach, author, mother of three, who writes the parenting advice column for The Post takes your questions about the

4 min read 2022-03-16 22:01:41

Q: My 10-year-old fourth-grader has hated school since kindergarten, regardless of the form: in person, online (pandemic), hybrid remote

4 min read 2022-03-09 23:03:55

Q: I have 16- and 11-year-old sons and a 14-year-old daughter. The 16-year-old is an a-hole at worst and a jerk at best to the 11-year-old. In

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Q: My toddler turned 2 two months ago, and he won’t listen to anything I ask him to do. I haven’t yelled at him or forced him into doing

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Q: I’m a dad of two: a girl and a boy. I find that I’m a lot tougher on my son than my daughter, even though he’s younger. I also have a

3 min read 2022-02-16 22:12:48

Q: How do I explain to parents that the success of their children often hinges on parental participation? I’m asking for a friend in