Hi there,

Has anyone else been through same...6 year old daughter with 10 month old brother.....know there is a little jealousy but have tried hard to combat this with involvement.
Treat them equally so if I buy anything for him, she gets a little bit of something too etc

Problem now is that she has begun to ask for nappies to wear herself? and to be treated like a baby.
Have explained that shyne will always look up to er as a big sister and how will I teach him how to go to loo, if his big sis still in nappies?

Does this get worse? wht can I do to help the situation? Experienced mum, but never had this with elder two.

it can be really hard with a little one in the house and a 6 year old. I know as i my eldest was 5 when the baby came along and then he was 8 when the youngest was born.

Personally i asked if he could help with the baby and made him feel as if only he could do it. That made him feel like a big brother.

I also spent time with him alone so that he knew that he still had me as his mum even though there was a baby in the house.

I do still spend individual time with all 3 kids as it is really important that they all know that they have me just for themselves even though we are a family group.

I think this is probably one of the reasons why we have a great relationship (they will be fabled words now i have spoken them out loud as he is now a teenager).

He does say that the little 2 get spoilt more than he does but he understands that if they get a magazine at the shops every week it no way equates to a new xbox game when he asks.

hope it helps x

I have a 7 and 6 year old daughter and a 7month old son. When he was born my older two would shout really loud or do something silly so that the attention would be on them. When he was around two weeks old we started to ask them to help with dressing/bathing/ and feeding him, they also push him in his pram when we go out, which made them feel like big sisters. Things started to get better over a period of about 2 months and we now have no problems with jealousy.
If we buy our baby something we either give the older two a bit of pocket money for them to buy something with.