“I have boy-girl twins who are almost 3. The girl is going through a whining phase, and her brother is beginning to whine, too. Help!” I can sympathize with the parent who wrote today’s question.

In the old days when we kids whined, we got smacked, spanked, sent to our rooms, or blatantly ignored. These days? That's not typically how people parent, but guess what? Kids everywhere are still ...

Every parent knows the familiar cadence and tone of a child begging for something, even after a parent says "no" because every parent has had to deal with whining and pleading that becomes a tantrum ...

I’m just going to say it: There are few sounds on Earth more annoying than the sound of a young child whining. It doesn’t matter what actual words are involved; when they hit that high-pitched ...

Nina is a beautiful, radiant, intelligent five-year-old little angel. She paints a picture of an inseparable mother-daughter relationship from her engagement with her mother. Not until Nina gets upset ...

"Now when my daughter starts whining, I hold her. Sometimes it takes ten minutes, but then she tells me when she's done, and goes off. It seems to ground her. It grounds me, too." - Kelly Source: ...

Anyone who has kids of his or her own or works with them encounters whining from time to time -- it's inevitable. But understanding what the whining is all about and how to head it off or ...