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by Annie Desantis, Parent Coach

In response to many of my clients asking for mini coaching sessions to answer their parenting questions I am now providing online parenting advice totally FREE! Your Parenting Questions and my Answer become a page on our site so other parents can also be inspired.

I usually charge $95.00 for a coaching session, so this is a great deal for you! It actually takes me a lot longer to write and build a page than it does to coach someone in a paid session. So take advantage of me, and ask your most burning parenting questions!

Scroll down the page to the form if you are ready to ask your question. Read other Parent's questions under the form.

I am currently in the process of grouping questions, so will find more general questions on this page. For age related questions visit these pages:
Questions About Todder Development, or Parenting Toddlers
Questions About Teenage Behaviour or Teenage Issues

What kind of Parenting Questions?

Any kind of parenting question!
  • Want some inspiration as a parent?
  • Have you got parenting questions about discipline?
  • Want some parenting advice about how to apply the law of attraction?
  • Need some ideas on how to bring out the best in your children?
  • Parenting help with behavior issues?
  • The challenge of a preschooler
  • Relating with Teenagers
  • Insight and feedback from an experienced parent coach.
  • Parenting advice with different ways of dealing with challenges.
  • Bedtime issues
  • Answers to parenting questions about child development.
  • Parenting tips and tricks to empower you as a parent.
  • Support as you learn good parenting skills.
  • How to be a more creative parent.

Your parenting question becomes a page here on our site, and I answer via the comments. Other parents can read and comment also, so your question will hopefully generate some discussion and ideas other than mine. Your question may also provide inspiration for others who read it. Heaps of parents struggle with the same issues and gaining inspiration from others is a wonderful way of building your online community.

Links to other Parenting Questions and Answers are below the form. Please post your comments.

How do I ask my Parenting Question?

It's simple!

Step One
Fill out the form with your parenting question - if you need help with the form, click the question mark for additional help. It is helpful for me to get some background, and plenty of details, so I can tune in and provide a good quality answer. (Please note, only One question per submission) When you are happy with your question click the Ask Annie button. To prevent spammers you will be asked to fill in a capture code. You can preview and re-edit your question on the next page.

Step Two
First Preview your page/question and make any changes. Next scroll down to the bottom and make sure you tick the notification box asking if you want to be notified when your page/question is uploaded and you have comments (my reply) That way you know when I have answered your parenting question, and also when other parents make some comments. I try to get all questions answered within 48 hours, but please be patient if I get a backlog.

Looking forward to being of service to you,
Annie D

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The clearer you are on your question, the better I can answer. Just remember this page is open to other parents to read, so you need to be aware this is not private. Your questions will be a great help for someone else, but protect your privacy if you need to. I may also use your question to help teach other parents, ie in an e-book or coaching.

Please Note, I am currently overseas visiting my gorgeous Grandchildren, so there will be a delay in answering your question. Please be patient, I will get to it when I can.

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Parenting Questions - Answers by Parent Coach Annie Desantis

Click the links to read Parenting Questions from other parents and feel free to add your own comments.

How Do I Apply Law of Attraction To Parenting?   Hi Annie,
Thank you for this chance to get some help with this question! I've been learning about law of attraction from various online lectures- Sue ...

My Child Does Not Seem To Want Me  Hi Annie,
I am a first time mother to an amazing 7 month baby girl and recently re-joined work full time.

I love my work but had initially planned ...

Sleeeeeeep!  Myself and my hubby attachment parented our three year old son. He is such a lovely little fella so we now have baby boy number Two who we are also attachment ...

When Is The Right Age To Tell A Child About Missing Dad?  My Ex was so abusive, he threw me out at nine months pregnant and did not want anything to do with our son when he was born.

I have brought up my son ...

Childs Fear Of The Dentist And Anxiety About Teeth  Annie,
My 7 year old daughter has anxiety about going to the dentist. Thankfully it is only twice a year, but each visit is full of tears and extreme ...

10 Year Old Tantrums  Hi Annie.
I have a 10 year old daughter. When she has good behavior she is the sweetest daughter. When she has bad behavior, I put her in time out.

I ...

Daughter Will Not Let Me Brush Or Fix Her Hair  Every morning before school, my daughter fights me on her hair. I will fix it and then she will take it out and look like a ragamuffin and then cry for ...

Children With Low Self Esteem  How do you change the thinking of children that have always been told that they were ugly, fat, stupid. Now they have a very low self esteem about themselves ...

5 Year Old Mind Games  I really enjoy your site and the wonderful advice you give.

I'm writing because I need help with my 5 year old daughter. I'm not sure if the steps ...

Bath Time Temper Tantrums  My son is 34 months old and his name is Matthew. The temper tantrums start at night time. About 8 o'clock I get his bath water ready and tell him that ...

Parental Consistency  I come from a very happy family, my father was very successful but always spent time with us. He was very relaxed. My mother was the law.

My husband ...

My 8 Year Old Daughter Wants To Run Away When Disciplined   Hi Annie
I have a very loving kind daughter who is 8 years old. She was battling with school but is very smart so we are homeschooling her now.

Lately ...

Shared Custody For An 8 Month Old?  My daughter is 8 months old. I have been separated from her father for six weeks and although he has 100% financially taken care of her, I have been her ...

Curious Girls  My 6 year old daughter and her best friend also a six year old girl got caught in the swimming pool with one of them having her bathing suit bottoms pulled ...

The Stress level In Here Is Stifling Everyone!  Annie,
I thought I would start with background, and get to the question. When I met my wife, she was still with but separated from her husband. This was ...

Sexual Curiosity At The Age of Six ? Isn't This A Little Soon?  I discovered last night by accident that my Six year old daughter had decided to use her own Digital Kid Zoom Camera to take not only Nude Photos front ...

Family Feud   Hi Annie,
I'm currently in need of some help! I had my baby five months ago and since then my partners family have turned extremely negative and nasty ...

Sticky Fingers  For a period of several weeks, maybe every other day, my 5 year old daughter has been showing us a new 'reward' she's received from her Pre-K classroom'...

How To Cope With Negative In-Laws  Dear Annie,
Hi, I have had a fall out with my in-laws, after they told me they did not care if I miscarried the baby I am carrying at the moment, due ...

Biological Mother Very Hard To Deal With  My husband and I are dealing with a malicious Mother (ex-wife) who wants me, the Step-mom, really to have as little interaction with their daughter as ...

How Do I Handle My 4 yr Old Son Killing Our Gerbil?  My 7 year daughter purchased a pair of gerbils with money she had saved last week. We are a multi pet household and both of our children have been raised ...

Social Inhibition - 3 Year Old Boy  My son is three years old and he is very introverted. He is very open at our house but in front of others he is very shy.

When he was eight or nine ...

Three Year Old Boy At Daycare  I'm a mother of a 3 year old boy who will turn 4 in November and I am really frustrated because every time I go and pick him up from the daycare the caregivers ...

Angry Child - Mum At Her Wits End!  Got An Angry Child?
Hi,
I am extremely concerned about my 7 yr old son. He has developed such a bad temper lately and screams and shouts at me and ...

Bedroom Privacy For Siblings  My daughter is 11 and my son is 5. They share the same room with the exception of sleeping time. My daughter sleeps in the bedroom and my son on the couch....

Law Of Attraction Parenting Advice  Hi Annie,
I resonate most strongly with the teachings of Abraham through Esther Hicks. So I am aware that a lot of my issues are centered around being ...

Adopted Children Have To Adapt To Drastically Different Rules  Dear Annie,

I was widowed and have raised my twin daughters, age 11, since they were a few months old. I have a parenting style that works well, with ...

Is My Child Just Willful, Or Does Her Behavior Point To A Bigger Issue?  Hi Annie, it's Sarah.
I really wanted to get your input on something Angie's preschool teacher said to me last week. As I have mentioned before, my 4-...

My Ten Year Old Daughter  Dear Annie,

I have 4 kids 10,8,7,and 4 years old. The three older kids are girls and the youngest is the boy.

I have been having problems with my ...

Baby Not Peeing Normally  Hi,

My 9 month old is drinking lots but she isn't peeing a lot. Normally it always very wet when I change her. She has a cold and cough but I don't ...

Mom Has To Be The Entertainer!  Hi,
I was wondering do you have any tips, my baby boy Max is 5 months old, and he is only happy if me or my partner are in his face playing or he is being ...

Long Distance Parenting - Reconnecting With Young Family  How can a 61 year old Canadian husband and Dad, with a 30 year old Filipino Wife and 3 girls, all under 4 yrs old, reconnect quicker?

My wife, Dina ...

Baby Crying When Left  Hi
My baby boy is four months old, and whenever he is left alone he cries. When he is picked up he is fine. We have started giving him solids and he ...

11 month old baby  Hi Annie,
I'm a new dad and my son Elias is eleven months old. I was wondering how much tummy and crawling time should he have a day.

Also what is ...

Misbehavior  My child has problems being nice to other kids. He tells them bad things, and I don't know why he does that.

I want him to be able to talk to me but ...

Which Educational Toy Is Best?  Hi Annie,
I am Deepanwita.

I want to ask you which type of educational toy could be the best for children?

Is a calculator and an Abacus one ...

8 year old boy getting into trouble at school  Hi Annie,

My son is 8 and in 2nd grade. Last year was pretty good for him, but so far this year I have received several notes and emails home from ...

How Do I Not Become My Father?  I have come to realize that my temper and patience is that of my father. He was a hit now, no questions later, kind of dad.

As a mom I find myself ...

Raising Children In A Divided Household  I am having a hard time keeping my children focused and on task when my spouse is doing things that I say that it is not okay for them to do.

Such ...

Dealing With A Middle Child  My 12 year old daughter is now dealing with being the middle child. I have always gone overboard trying to satisfy this child but she still feels like ...

My 8 year old son refuses to eat dinner.  My 8 year old son absolutely refuses to eat dinner. He has never eaten red meat, and consequently he is very low in iron, but he does have boundless energy ...

Spouse Disagrees With My Discipline   Is it okay for your spouse to interrupt you while you are disciplining your child?

Is it okay for them to interrupt to tell you what you are doing ...

Autism, AD/HD Socialization Question  Hi Annie,
My son is 12 yrs in age and about 8-9 yrs in maturity age. He has mild autism and more severe AD/HD and has not been able to make a friend ...

Teaching Respect, Not Compliance  Dear Annie,

I have two daughters, ages 5 and 2, and am wanting to parent in a way that allows them to be their authentic self and not "good girls" that ...

Parenting The Second Time Around  How can I effectively help my 14 year old grand child accept the fact that she will not be parented by her mother ever.

We love each other but there ...

I have some questions about dealing with sensitive issues as children grow up. 
I really want to ask you about introducing the sensitive issue of sex to our children. I noticed on this site that you mention that it is important to ...

What About Competition?  I was wondering about competition. We are not a sports oriented family so this is not really the issue.

We are going to start the Un-schooling approach ...

My 7 Year Old Is Ruling My Household 
Hi there,
I have a 7 year old daughter, whose father and I broke up when she was 1 and 1/2. She has no contact with him at all, but when she was 2 I ...

Too Many Parenting Changes
I Had A Melt-Down Today. HELP!
  Hello again. I am so new to all of this. I have only really come to understand and grow in Law Of Attraction over the past 4 or 5 months. I first came ...

My 8 year old daughter wants to run around without clothes! 
My 8 year old daughter wants to go around without any clothes. We are at odds about it. When we were doing traditional parenting, we just flat out told ...

LOA Parenting vs Traditional Parenting 
I am just about 5 months young with LOA, but really been doing for a lifetime, only in the form of faith-filled prayers.

It is really cool to so ...

How do I Encourage My Granddaughter to Thank People Spontaneously? 
I have a delightful 6 year old granddaughter who is generally well behaved and well mannered. The problem is that when she has been out to someone's ...

What to do about in-laws and other fear based relatives? :)  
Hi Annie,
My in-laws and some other relatives are so negative and it scares me to hear them talk about the world and life. I can listen to them and ...

Angry 3 year old who hits, yells and talks back  Hi,

I have an intelligent, sensitive and very active little boy. He is also very fiery, stubborn and aggressive. He is very quick to anger and will ...

Emotional Personality Child  Hi,

I have a 7 year old boy who was adopted (something not as common in my country).

He is a very sensitive and protective kid that does not follow ...

Kids Dealing With Divorce  I would love to see more about kids dealing with divorce and how we can help them with their feelings.

My grandsons, 2 1/2 and 5 have an absent father ...

8 month old baby not sleeping through the night  Hi Annie

My 8 month old daughter is not sleeping through the night and I am most often suffering from sleep deprivation. Having moved house 4 months ...

Bullying  My child is being bullied at school, how can I help him to see that if he can change the way he expects to feel when he goes to school he can have a very ...

Physical aggression in toddler aged 5  There is some kind of physical aggression every day - mainly my 5yo towards other members of the family. I do not parent conventionally - do not use shouting,...

Sibling Fighting  I have a set of 10 year old boy/girl twins. I consider myself quite fortunate as, outside of this issue, things are pretty good. They do well in school,...

Kindergarten Preschool Dilemna  It seems no-one wants children to be free. My kindergarten child is at a school and many things are contrasting for us both.

I am starting to think ...

Make My Kid A Positive Kid  Hi Annie,
I just began to read about the Law of Attraction and I being follow the steps in order to make sure I live a happy and health life and the ...

Can You Counsel Me About Husband And Wife Issues?  Dear Annie
Can I ask some questions related to husband and wife issues?

I am asking this since this is a site related to kids issues.

Reply from ...

Letter To My Son After Years Of Not Seeing Him  I love my son very much and I just located him on Facebook. I would love to find an example letter so I can write to my son and let him know I love him,...

Learning Difficulties In Children  My 12 year old daughter can't tell the time properly. Could she have learning problems, as her SATS results are also below average?

Annie's Reply
Hello,...

My 1 Year Old Baby Not Urinating  Dear Annie,
My 1 year old son has not peed for 3-4 hours. He has a cold and behaviour is normal. I have given him water to drink too.



Annie's ...

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