http://www.justthefactsbaby.org/blog/2009/10/teaching-your-child-to-be-gentle-with-younger-siblings/ Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:43:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 http://www.justthefactsbaby.org/blog/2009/10/teaching-your-child-to-be-gentle-with-younger-siblings/#comment-2149 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:39:39 +0000 http://www.justthefactsbaby.org/blog/?p=262#comment-2149 I nanny for a family that has a 4 year old boy and recently adopted a 1 year old girl from Ethiopia (they live in Colorado). The boy is constantly squeezing her, throwing stuff at her, hitting her, etc. We are forever saying “Don’t touch the baby’s face.” After several weeks (she’s only been here for 6 weeks) the mom finally got to the bottom of the problem. It wasn’t jealously on his part, but him wanting the baby to actually play with him. The mom explained to him that she is still too little to really ‘play’ with him and they she will when she gets bigger. And that if he is constantly in her face and bugging her that she won’t want anything to do with him and will continue to push him away. He is finally starting to get better about it! (He did have his parents to himself for 4 years before there was an instant 1 year old in the house. So I understand why he acts out towards her.) She is learning to defend herself, though. At only 7 lbs lighter than him, will bypass him in weight sooner rather than later. And she pinches hard. She’s one tough cookie already!!

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