TOPIC: K-4
Ask Hal – How Can I Talk to My Children?
This is Linda. I am a single mother of 5 young children. (4 boys/1 girl) I really need to know how to talk to my children. The kids’ dad doesn’t have much to do with them, and that makes it real hard on my boys. I heard you on the FISH one day. I have been looking for the book. I decided to search the web, so this is how I got this far. I will get this book when I can. Thanks for your time and I’ll check the download out.
Ask Hal – My Daughter’s Social Skills
Hal,
My daughter is in the first grade and has a hard time with her friends. The girls tend not to want to bother with her and it’s because my daughter still acts a little immature compared to her friends. She sometimes pushes, or pokes them. She is not a bully but I can see she is annoying the other children.
Ask Hal – Helping Children Deal with Tragedy
We recently received the news that our six year old nephew has a rare brain stem tumor. The outlook is not good, as they have not had any survivors of this type of brain tumor. (Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma).
How do you prepare young children (10, 7 and 3 years old) for what the family will go through with his treatment and how do we prepare them for the possibility, (although we are hoping and praying for a miracle) for his death? Thanks!
Ask Hal – A Battle with a Five-Year-Old
Dear Hal,
My 5 yr old son has been mouthy and he won’t listen. His teacher is having the same problem. If we ground him to his room, he peels the paint on the sheetrock off the walls. We don’t know what else we can do.
Ask Hal – How Do You Handle Lying?
My five-year-old (who needs to remain nameless) is lying and seems to feel no remorse for it. It’s not just fantastic stories – its lies to avoid consequences, but lies that are so obvious everyone knows she’s lying. What can we do?
Ask Hal – Homework Hovering
My nine-year old child doesn’t seem to make doing his homework a priority. Sometimes he misses deadlines on assignments. I just want to sit there and watch that he completes his schoolwork. Is this the best strategy?
Ask Hal – Getting in Trouble at School
My daughter 7 has been getting in trouble in school. Either being too aggressive with the other children, or taking things, or hiding things from other children. When she is confronted by the teacher or assistant principal, she denies it. Even though it is quite obvious that she had done the offense. I cannot use the strategy that this is her business and she will receive the natural consequences, because the school calls me to handle it. I talk to my daughter but it is in one ear and out the next. Otherwise, academically she is doing great. I try to tell her that getting 100s is not everything; you must behave. She is bigger than most of the girls in her class and I want to prevent her from turning into a bully.
Ask Hal – Blended Families
I have been in a relationship with my partner for about 20mths now and we have lived together for about 7mths. We both have young children. Our issue is how to blend the 2 sets of kids when we only have his children for one week then they live with their mother for one week then back to us. Mine are with me all week and then with their father. The children also attend different schools in the area which makes me into the taxi driver. Our upbringings and consequent parenting skills we now have are totally different from each other…..how do we juggle these please?
