5/19/2012 6:00:39 AM
Patty is worried about her 24 year old daughter. She believes people have ruined our planet with pollution and greed. She doesn't use products for bathing, eats from dumpsters, and travels around picking fruit and working on farms. She carries her tent while hitchhiking from place to place. She is extremely worried for her daughter's safety. Thoughts?
5/16/2012 10:00:42 PM
Ramona is a 20 year old single mom whose own mother is helping her raise her son. She's upset because her mom criticizes her parenting skills, while also criticizing the father for not sticking around. She feels like all the responsibility is on her. She has to work part time at a fast food joint, cleanup after others in the house and take care of her son. She wants to be happy again, but feels like her circumstances prevent this. How can she be happier and stronger?
5/14/2012 2:00:55 PM
Amber is 29 and lives in another country. She sees her mom once a year. They talk on the phone often, however, and mom just loves hearing all about her daughter's life. The problem is that Amber is a very private person and thinks this is an invasion and threat to her privacy. She asks if she really has to share information with mom, which increases the stress in her life. They've argued about it often and mom many times is in tears because she feels left out. Is there a solution? What do you think?
5/11/2012 6:00:01 AM
Bethann was married for 18 years before she divorced her husband due to drugs and other women. She admits she made mistakes as she raised her three children alone, but she did her best. Now her oldest daughter is 23 and doesn't want anything to do with her. Mom is distraught, and wonders if it's her daughter's drug use that is causing this. She asks if she lost her daughter forever. Thoughts?
5/4/2012 6:00:33 AM
Ella was an addict who had two little girls. One day she left her girls with so-called friends while she got her fix. When she returned, the oldest, aged 3 at the time, had been raped. Authorities removed the girls and now, 15 years later, she's finally clean. Her oldest daughter forgave her, but the youngest refuses. She wants her daughter back -- what else can she do?
5/2/2012 10:00:21 PM
Michelle hates her life. Her deadbeat boyfriend quit his job and she wonders daily who he's cheating with; her 4 year old son was kicked out of daycare and the new one calls her daily to come get him. She hates her job, working 55 hours a week and is exhausted when she gets home. She has centered her life trying to make the boyfriend happy while she has become miserable. She's at the end of her rope. I gave her my advice; what's yours?
4/30/2012 10:00:42 PM
Rhonda has a 14 year old granddaughter who lives with her. She hates everybody and everything. Her mother has schizophrenia and lost custody, while the girl's father is married to a wife that said he had to make a choice between her OR his daughter. Thoughts?
4/21/2012 2:00:52 PM
ST was abused relentlessly as a child by her father. As an adult, she needed medical attention which required her to go out of town. She left the children with her parents, never thinking her father would molest her young children. Now two of the children are victims of sexual battery and she cannot find free or reduced counseling for her children. Her GP has her on Prozac because she's so depressed, and some of her family members blame her for all the family troubles. Her life is getting more difficult by the minute -- she needs help. What would you tell this distraught mom?
4/19/2012 10:00:22 PM
Sher's son had a daughter during his senior year of high school. She raised the baby while the mom and her son acted like wild and crazy kids. Now the baby is 14, and her son has a wife who is jealous of all the attention the child receives. She's going to London to teach during the fall semester, and wants the 14 year old to go with them. First dad said the girl could go for the whole trip, now he says she can go, but only for a week. How can she make him change his mind?
4/18/2012 6:00:12 AM
Charmaine is almost 22 years old, and she wants to move out of her home, but her mom says NO! Mom says that she is not mature or responsible enough and will probably get raped. She feels trapped and unhappy. Should she go for it even without mom's blessing?
4/15/2012 10:00:50 PM
Katie is worried about her 5 year old son. He misses his dad, but his dad doesn't come around to visit him very often. He refuses to make any effort and her son is becoming sad about this. She wonders what she should tell her son?
4/13/2012 2:00:18 PM
Teri has a happily married 33 year old daughter with an 8 year old son. Her daughter sent her an email saying she wasn't talking to anyone for awhile, but as it turns out, she just wasn't talking to HER. Now she finds out her daughter blames her for being a neglectful mom, and responsible for all of her problems today. Why is daughter doing this all of a sudden after so many years? Is there a way to repair this mother/daughter relationship?
4/10/2012 10:00:42 PM
Nida's 26 year old son is on mood stabilizing medications, and will be for life. She wonders if this will hurt his chances of becoming a father and if when carrying these large pill bottles if this could be an issue for him at airport security. Do you know?
4/9/2012 2:00:06 PM
Connie's 7 year old son is ADHD, and she feels forced to give him the meds so he will be quiet in class. The school says there will be problems if she doesn't keep him on his medication, but her son looks anorexic. Any time he stays home, she skips the meds and lets him just be himself, and says the school system is driving this and that some higher ups are simply padding their bank accounts. Do you have a comment on this subject?
4/7/2012 2:00:47 PM
Marilyn's daughter was involved in a terrible automobile accident, where the car flipped several times. Her daughter is now experiencing anger and anxiety and mom worries about PTSD. Can PTSD be treated? If so, how? Is this normal after a car wreck?
4/4/2012 10:00:34 PM
Salimah's 17 year old daughter is going through severe depression. They tried a medication and a counselor, but she's still depressed. She used to be a very bright student, but now she doesn't care. She doesn't understand why; there's no reason her daughter should be depressed. Do you have something to offer this concerned mom?
4/3/2012 2:00:28 PM
Dawn uprooted her life in order to help her three grown daughters, their children and their baby daddies. Only problem is that they're all living together and no one is getting along and there's another baby on the way. Mom is at her wits end and asks how does she make everyone get along?
4/2/2012 6:00:15 AM
Robi has two babies by her boyfriend. They live next door to his mother who does not approve of her parenting skills. She tells boyfriend that Robi's a bad mother, and a big problem. She just can't seem to get along with her. Also, the mom broke up boyfriends last marriage. So she says, she'd never marry him because this WOMAN would then be her mother-in-law -- yet asks how to cope with her. How would you advise this confused woman?
3/30/2012 6:00:45 AM
CIG is upset that her 14 year old son's girlfriend writes 'I love you' and 'I want to be your wife' and similar things on note after note after note. She also wants to spend all weekend and after school time with him as well, and mom is at a loss what to do. She thinks this is just too much, and wants to know if this behavior is normal and worries if they will get married soon. Should she break them up? What do you think?
3/28/2012 2:00:26 PM
Abbey is curious about her friend. He had a nice girl, who even helped him finish his PhD thesis, but he treated her badly because his mother did not approve. Giving her mixed signals until she couldn't take it anymore, she quit him. He, however, kept contacting her, sometimes loving, sometimes a jerk. He even broke into her email account to attempt to control her. Is it because of his troubled family upbringing, or is he responsible for his own actions?
3/25/2012 6:00:21 AM
Nanc always wanted a loving family. She has the family part; it's just not as loving as she had hoped. Her daughter refuses to forgive her brother for past issues, some even in childhood. Now that he has turned his life around, apologized to his sister and wants to do good, the daughter still refuses to invite him to her house for family reunions. She insists he first must say he is sorry for everything he has done in the past, including childhood - EVERYTHING. Nanc doesn't know what to do, because all family gatherings are at the daughter's house! What is a mother to do?
3/22/2012 10:00:01 PM
Julia feels her 4 year old daughter must have some mental issues, but she can't find a doctor who will treat her because of her age. She has a severe intolerance to fructose, and loses her mind whenever she ingests some. She asks what she should do. Got any ideas?
3/19/2012 2:00:18 PM
D and her husband recently separated after a 12 year marriage. His dad told him his mother has been intimate with the men she's dating, and he has screamed at her, cursing, and attacked a punching bag until he tore a hole in it. One night D lost it, hitting him with a belt and told him to go live with his dad. Is there a way to repair this mother/son relationship?
3/17/2012 10:00:44 PM
Tracie is very concerned about her 20 year old son. He began abusing drugs as a senior in high school, and now he is emaciated and has a constant blank stare. His doctor has not been able to find a psychiatrist who is still taking patients and her son has lost his university scholarship. Now she isn't sure how to proceed. Do you have suggestions for her?
3/15/2012 6:00:34 AM
Brianna is a high school senior who goes to class for two hours a day. She recently lost her grandma who was always there to comfort her whenever she felt down. Now she's alone, in a house where her mom takes care of her brother's child, and her sister just moved in with her child. She's not feeling the love but is feeling more like an outcast. No one is telling her congrats on graduation or recognizing her good grades or early graduation; she wonders why she's even there. Do you have some comforting words for her?
