Are my 5-year-old's behavioral problems at daycare normal? My five-year-old son will be six in August. It's been a rollercoaster ride since he's been two. I'm feeling lost and failed as a parent. Me and his father are divorced since he's been two and we keep a straight line raising him separate. I can say we both love and support him.   He's been in speech therapy since age two, by three he was still not talking clear. I moved forward with professional help, being concerned that he may have autism. I went through all the testing and came back no signs of it just a receptive, expressive speech delay.  He started kindergarten this year full time, doing his academics in the morning with his special teacher, going to lunch, then joining his general kindergarten class to finish the day.   He's been responding well to the routine and made intermittent improvements with his speech. Unfortunately, the last month his behavior declined sufficiently.   My son feeds on bad attention. No matter how much I redirect him or his teachers, he feels no remorse and continues to repeat these bad actions. He runs around the classroom, has a hard time sitting in his seat, lately has been hitting students and teachers, something he never did at home.   I'm constantly having the same conversations with him and repeatedly going back to disruptive behavior at school. I don't let him get away with this behavior but he's pushing it hard at school.   It's one thing after another, I just can't catch a break. I'm moving on to professional help and I pray the outcome is right for my child.   I just can't understand why he loves to misbehave. Is this normal?
How can we discipline a strong-willed, misbehaving 5 year-old? My 5 year old son receives and fears punishment but repeatedly exhibits the same unacceptable behaviors.  He's always been strong-willed, and is usually the kind to view a statement like "Don't do that" as an open invitation to do it.  We've tried redirection or distraction tactics, but he is still so narrowly focused on doing the original behavior.  Even worse, he will typically do the prohibited behavior and flagrantly tell us or show us that he's done it.  Repeatedly, even after punishment.  (He's in time out right now for this very thing).  He's consistently punished, yet he continues down the same self-destructive path each time.  When he is punished, we explain what he did wrong, why he's being punished, and why he shouldn't do what he was told not to do.  Sometimes he'll even tell us first why he's in trouble, so it makes me wonder if he's acting out for the inevitable negative attention he gets.  I think he gets plenty of love and positive attention- he's an only child and stays with a relative during the day.  We're trying to give him a good, fun childhood, but we need to figure out how to effectively discipline him.    His repeated misbehavior includes:   Yelling at the top of his lungs in public (stores, friends' houses, etc) Running away from us (at parks, stores, parking lots, etc) Talking back and disrespecting authority figures Hurting animals even after we explain why it's wrong Repetitive nuisance behaviors (repeating himself, banging his fists, kicking walls, intentionally crumbling food on floors, etc) Repeatedly asking us why he can't do something even after it's been explained to him Basically, most bad behaviors that young children may do, but repeated over and over again, even after discipline   He gets a warning to stop the behavior, then depending on the severity of what he's done (and where we are), he'll either go to time out or lose a privilege (such as taking away a favorite movie or missing out on an activity).  Going to time outs and losing privileges really upset him, but still do not ultimately deter him from the bad behavior.  It's like he can't help himself.  My spouse and I are getting worn down.  We try to model good behavior and encourage him to be well-mannered and respectful.  This behavior mortifies us.  It seems we can't even enjoy life as a family because our son is so disruptive and unresponsive.  Most public outings have to be cut short or eliminated because he consistently misbehaves and doesn't respond to our discipline.  After he's misbehaved, when we try to have heart-to-heart talks with him about his behavior and why we expect him to mind us, he usually has a little trouble expressing himself, and a lot of times we get the same nonsensical responses from him (Us: Why did you do [bad behavior]?  Him: Because I didn't want to).  He also doesn't like to make eye contact.  We don't usually feel like we've gotten through to him.  Is there another discipline tactic we could try?  Or does it sound like we need to see a professional at this point?  We're at a loss, and don't want things to spiral further out of control as he gets older (and even begins school).  We just want him to understand that his behavior isn't always acceptable.  Thanks for reading.  Update (from comments below): My spouse and I disagree on spanking, as we had different experiences with it. He feels it's necessary sometimes. Since our son failed to improve after time outs and taking away items/privileges, I grew to agree with him and we used it for select bad behaviors. It didn't work any better. However, when he was spanked, he was always told why. I didn't mention that we have used it because I was afraid it would distract from the original question, but since it has already come up [in comments], yes, it has been explored, but with no better results than our other tactics.
If I'm playing the Hilltop farm in co-op - what farmer's mining level is used for the hilltop spawns? Insert result of a parallellized select query into a table, in Postgresql According to ,      "Even when it is in general possible for parallel query plans to be   generated, the planner will not generate them for a given query if any   of the following are true:       The query writes any data or locks any database rows. If a query contains a data-modifying operation either at the top level or within   a CTE, no parallel plans for that query will be generated. This is a   limitation of the current implementation which could be lifted in a   future release."   Indeed, when I try to insert result of a parallel SELECT query into a table (either by SELECT.. INTO either by WITH..SELECT..INTO, the query is not executed as parallel query.  My question is: Is there any way to trick the Postgresql so that a SELECT query is executed as parallel query and then its result inserted into a table? Bounds for $n$-th prime In  I have found that the bounds for $n$-th prime is given by, $$n(\ln n+\ln \ln n)&gt;p_n&gt;n(\ln n+\ln \ln n-1)$$ for all $n\ge6$. Are there even stronger bounds for the $n$-th prime?   If possible (of course if the answer is affirmative) in the answer (or comment) please give the link of the paper in which it first appears. , where a user had taken the time to look at the link on a post and realized that the post wasn't just off-topic, it was actually half-decently-disguised spam. So he flagged it as spam, and an overworked mod declined it, giving the questioner the benefit of the doubt. And we probably want mods to be giving the questioner the benefit of the doubt.  We also want to get rid of spam ASAP, and make the lives of mods easier. I'd like to suggest a feature the mod in question mused might be useful: An optional textbox where you can add a note saying why you think it's spam, so the mod can see it easily. In this case, the helpful user who went the extra mile could have written "Site linked doesn't relate at all to the question, instead solicits BitCoins" or similar.  One can leave a comment on the question, but:   People sometimes leave...unhelpful...comments on spam questions, and we don't want mods to have to take the time to read through them hoping for something useful It allows the user flagging the spam to do so and say why without calling attention to themselves publicly     Update: We may well want this for all flags, but in particular I had reason to want it for an NAA flag, so I've posted . Linear regression with non-symmetric cost function? I want to predict some value $Y(x)$ and I am trying to get some prediction $\hat Y(x)$ that optimizes between being as low as possible, but still being larger than $Y(x)$. In other words: $$\text{cost}\left\{ Y(x) \gtrsim \hat Y(x) \right\}  &gt;&gt; \text{cost}\left\{ \hat Y(x) \gtrsim Y(x) \right\}  $$  I think a simple linear regression should do totally fine. So I somewhat know how to implement this manually, but I guess I'm not the first one with this kind of problem. Are there any packages/libraries (preferably python) out there doing what I want to do? What's the keyword I need to look for?  What if I knew a function $Y_0(x) &gt; 0$ where $Y(x) &gt; Y_0(x)$. What's the best way to implement these restrictions? GOTO still considered harmful? Is the space $\mathbb{N}$ is a baire spaces ? yes/No Is  the  space $\mathbb{N}$  is a  baire  spaces ?  My attempts :   No ,  It  will not form a  baires  spaces ,  let $C_n= \mathbb{N}\setminus\{n\}$. This is open (since $\{n\}$ is closed in $\mathbb{R}$, hence in the induced topology of $\mathbb{N}$) and dense, since every open ball with center in $\mathbb{n}$ intersects ${C_n}$. But  $$\bigcap_{n\in\mathbb{N}} {C}_n = \emptyset$$  So $\mathbb{N}$ is not a baires  spaces because for  Baire Space the intersection of a countable family of open dense sets must be dense.   Is  Its correct or not ? If a function maps every connected set onto a connected set, is it necessarily continuous? I know the converse is true. Using Iterator with ModelBuilder for clipping and splitting in ArcMap? "many a time" means "many times"? I have downloaded and installed the newest  for my Windows 7 (64-bit OS), but when I want to install 64-bit Linux, the New->Create Virtual Machine only displays 32-bit option, no 64-bit option. Could anyone give any clues about this issue? Thanks very much in advance! I'm trying to update my system using apt-get, but it's giving me this error  Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com raring Release.gpg          Could not connect to bd.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (116.193.170.18), connection timed out Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com raring-updates Release.gpg   Unable to connect to bd.archive.ubuntu.com:http: Err http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com raring-backports Release.gpg   Unable to connect to bd.archive.ubuntu.com:http: Reading package lists... Done W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/Release.gpg  Could not connect to bd.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (116.193.170.18), connection timed out W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring-updates/Release.gpg  Unable to connect to bd.archive.ubuntu.com:http: W: Failed to fetch http://bd.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring-backports/Release.gpg  Unable to connect to bd.archive.ubuntu.com:http: W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.   I am not a Ubuntu master but I can understand this is not a computer error. Any clues on how to fix it? Why is a 1" sensor actually 13.2 × 8.8mm? I'm wondering how sensor sizes are calculated. The Sony RX100 reportedly has a sensor size of 1" which is 13.2 x 8.8 mm according to the press release and various sites.  How does that work? That's a pretty small inch.  The Wikipedia page on  has this chart:   which doesn't really help. (The 1" format is labelled Nikon CX. Chart by Moxfyre under the CC-BY-SA license.)   If full frame/35 mm refers to the horizontal size, what does 1" refer to? Google Sheets has several import functions   IMPORTDATA IMPORTFEED IMPORTHTML IMPORTXML   Sometimes the above functions returns errors like #N/A Imported content is empty and would like to be sure that there isn't a problem with the resource content to be imported.  How do I know if these functions are able to get the content that I looking to import?  I know that there also exist IMPORTRANGE but that function only is able to import content from Google Sheets spreadsheets Selecting all files in directory for merging in QGIS Processing? I'm writing a generic script which involves writing shapefiles to a directory which are then merged together. After writing the files out to the Output folder, I'm trying to get the saga:mergeshapeslayers algorithm to merge all the files in the Output folder. I have used the Model Builder and although it is helpful to an extent, I find that it is used for specific purposes whereas I am attempting to make a script for generic purposes.   Code:  ##Test=name ##Select_folder=folder ##Result=output vector  import os import glob  path_1 = Select_folder path = path_1 os.chdir(path)  def function():      output = glob.glob(path_1 + './*.shp')     x = 0      while output[x]:         for fname in glob.glob("*.shp"):             outputs_1 = processing.runandload("qgis:fieldcalculator", output[x], 'Number', 1, 10, 0, True, 1 , "C:\Users\Me\Desktop\Output\\"  + fname)             multiple_0 = glob.glob("*.shp")             x = x + 1          if x + 1 &gt; len(output):             processing.runalg("saga:mergeshapeslayers", output[0], ";".join(multiple_0) , Result)             break         else:             continue  if path_1:     function() else:    pass "A friend of my father" vs. "a friend of my father's" — which one is right? Why? I have seen them both in my reference book, which is written by a native speaker. I wonder why there are two different phrases to describe the same meaning and am looking forward to some reasonable details to explain why this is so. Why does Perl's sprintf not round floating point numbers correctly? Adapt Ubuntu to a high-DPI resolution screen How can I adapt Ubuntu to a high resolution display?  I have a display with 3200x1600px on only 11'' and everything looks really tiny. I am attempting to install Ubuntu on a box which was previously running Windows 7.  I have also experienced the dreaded "Unable to install GRUB" error.  I am not attempting to dual boot. I have previously run a Windows boot disk and removed all existing partitions.  If I run the Ubuntu 12.04 install CD and click install after the config screens, I get the error   Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal error. (It is the same error as this question: )  All the questions I've read while looking for a solution are related to dual boot.  I'm not interested in dual boot, I'm after a clean out the box Ubuntu install. How can I achieve this?  (For my sanity, please use very simple instructions when responding. I don't claim to have any talent either for linux or as a sysadmin)    Additional details copied from comments dated: 2012-05-29 ~15:19Z  After booting from the CD, clicking Try Ubuntu, and then sudo fdisk /dev/sda I get fdisk: unable to seek on /dev/sda: Invalid argument  sudo fdisk /dev/sdb gives   Device contains neither a valid DOS partiion table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel.  Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x15228d1d.  Changes will remain in memory only until you decide to write them.  After that of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.  Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite).  Command (m for help):   I should add the Live CD desktop is graphically bad. I've got missing parts of programs and the terminal occasionally reflects to the bottom of the screen. But I can't imagine this is related. Markdown does not allow for bold italic, then bold, then bold italic I am trying in one of my posts to do this:  ***how many*** **and** ***where***   Which for some reason comes out like this:    Why is that happening?  Shouldn't the middle word be bold?  Is this  for markdown or is it (as I assume) a ?