Have a child behavior question you want answered by Dr. Melissa Fiorito-Grafman?
Click here to send her an e-mail. Selected questions will be answered and posted online. My four year old daughter is a darling child. She is typically very agreeable and very lighthearted. Her father and I went through a divorce 18 months ago and it was bitter. She would throw fits when she had to take visitation with him to the point of uncontrollable crying, angst and beating her head on the windows or anything she could find. He left in October for a military deployment. I could not get her to speak with him on the phone. I asked if he would try Skype (video calls) and it worked successfully, however, he can only do it on rare occasions. He instead calls her and she refuses to speak with him. During this time, she has begun having horrible outbursts and tantrums for no apparent reason. I have tried time out, naughty chair and talking it through with her but they have become more frequent. My question is two fold. Is there anything I should be doing that I am not to get her to speak
