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Jo Mitchellhill talks tweens, teenagers and strategies
Jo Mitchellhill parent coach Jo Mitchelhill has had a successful career as a primary school teacher and foster carer. During her 20 years within
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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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I’m having second thoughts about the people we chose as guardians
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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Our 4-year-old is clingy, and we’re having another baby. Help!
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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We both had siblings. How do we raise an “only” child?
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
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My daughter doesn’t want to have children. Is that my fault?
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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Why am I the only parent volunteering?
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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He didn’t make it into his top college choice. How do I help now?
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
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Our 6-year-old has a lot. How do we teach him to care for others?
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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Dad and daughter have a fraught relationship. What can Mom do?
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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Should I make my teens with mental health issues do chores?
Meghan Leahy, a parenting coach, author, mother of three, who writes the parenting advice column for The Post takes your questions about the
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My son is trying to get kicked out of school. What should I do?
Q: My 10-year-old fourth-grader has hated school since kindergarten, regardless of the form: in person, online (pandemic), hybrid remote
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A teen son bullies his family. But he’s not the only one who needs to change.
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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Help! My 2-year-old won’t listen to anything I say.
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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Dad knows he’s a lot tougher on his son than his daughter. He asks: Is this normal?
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