Dear Miss Faith, I have a 3yo boy in my play program who is a toy hoarder. All of his play seems to consist of dumping out toys into a…
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Neediness
Dear Miss Faith, My daughter just turned three and mostly things are fine, but her neediness is draining on me. It feels a bit like there’s a hole in her…
Holiday Celebrations with Toddlers
One of the things that many of us love most about holidays are the rituals: doing things the same way each year. I like to define rituals as “connecting activities…
Mama Takes a Trip
Dear Miss Faith, My daughter is 23 months old and I’ll be leaving her for the first time on Friday. I’ll be gone for 4 days. I haven’t told her…
Help with Power Struggles
Hi Miss Faith, My son is 2 and I feel like we are in a constant power struggle. I know it’s somewhat normal but I hate this, and feel bad…
Engaging Cooperation
Dear Miss Faith, I’ve been caring for several 2-year-olds, and we’ve recently had a new 4-year-old boy join us. This 4yo is generally uncooperative, and the littler kids are starting…
Running Away
Dear Miss Faith–My 2 year old is running away from me for everything, and it’s causing some problems. Put on socks, shoes, brush teeth, go to school, change diaper, go…
Being Firm without Being Mean
I’ve talked before about how it benefits children when we have clear expectations and firm boundaries, and how it is reassuring to children to know that we are in charge.…
Refusing to Speak
Hi Faith, My friend just turned me onto your blog and the timing couldn’t be better! I have a 16 month old daughter that has stopped talking! She will grunt…
Imaginative Journeys for Mundane Tasks
Redbird tells each child to put his cloth in the bowl Dear Miss Faith, I’ve never before had children that regularly made a fuss but at the moment I…
Luring Kids into Helping
This is a response that I wrote to a mom in my teleclass who was inspired to fold laundry with her four-year-old daughter, only to discover that her daughter wasn’t…
Bullying/Sibling Rivalry
Dear Miss Faith, I am looking for suggestions to help with some fairly severe sibling rivalry. This is a preschool-aged old boy towards his young-toddler sister, in a family which…