Question

Your friend has just had a new baby boy. She is worried because her older child, a two-year-old girl, has been placing her toys and books in the baby’s crib and sometimes places them on his head. She wonders whether her two-year-old is trying to hurt the new baby. What can you tell her about her older child’s intentions?

Answer 1

Answer:

That the older child is not trying to hurt her but might actually be playing with her baby brother.

Explanation:

In life, people tends to associate and play with another individual in a way they deemed fit. A adult way of playing is different from a way a child would play.

In the case of the 2-year old girl, she might actually be surprised that she has a younger brother. In her own little way of playing with her, she is putting things into his crib as way of giving her younger brother rather than trying to harm him.