Archive for the Crushes Category
Camp Crush
September 27th, 2007 at 2:49pm
Dear Sharon,
A 9-year-old boy has developed a huge crush apparently on my 16-year-old teenage daughter who’s a counselor at his summer day camp. He calls her at home all the time, and it’s made her very uncomfortable. Her natural impulse is to avoid him now at all costs. I think there is [...]
Coping with Your Child’s First Crush
March 12th, 2004 at 4:46pm
Melanie’s son is in the sixth grade. He is pretty typical for his age. Recently she noticed that he had written a girl’s name all over his school notebook and has assumed he has a “crush” on someone.
Should she herself have a dialogue with her son about girls and related sexual topics? [...]