Do you have advice for Beth? I have a 4 year old son (just turned on Monday) and a 6 month old son. Our 4 yo has always been very emotional and the addition of the new baby has been very hard on him. He gets upset very easily when I pay attention to the baby. He loves to give attention to the baby but to the point where Im worried about him harming the baby (i.e. roughly patting/hitting his tummy, squeezing very hard on hugs, squishing his head). He also gets very touchy/feely with the baby when Im trying to breastfeed him. Ive told him multiple times to be gentle, showed him how to hug him safely. Sometimes Ive had to grab him quickly to stop him from hurting the baby. I often tell him to give the baby space while Im feeding so as not to distract him etc. Lately in the last few months any time we give him any sort of direction or tell him no or something that he does like he will yell at us that he doesnt like us and will run away and slam his door. Its his standard reply along with sticking his tongue out at us and singing na-na-boo-boo (as a taunt). Do you have any suggestions for how I can deal with this in a more productive manner? I know not to take it personally (this is hard though!) and he also tells us multiple times a day that he loves us. But apart from putting myself between him and the baby, telling him I wont let him hurt the baby, that what he doesnt like is the words Im telling him not us, I tell him if he needs his space he can go to his room until he is ready to be with us again but he cannot slam the door, Im a bit at the end of my repertoire here. Thanks!
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:22:20 +0000
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