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How to Prepare a Toddler for a New Sibling
Female: Didn’t think we could have kids and found that we were expecting john and we were thrilled and about eight months into having him in our lives we found we were expecting again. So doubly excited but we’re very nervous.
It’s becoming more of a realization as the time is drawing closer. I think that that’s really been a revelation for my husband and myself to see that. Gosh she’s going to have to get used to somebody else being around. And he’s kind of the center or universe right now.
Male: Why don’t you stand right there John. I'm here to giver the baby a kiss.
Female: So we started looking into different resources to see how we could help them and basically all of them safer. Kids under two, it’s very hard to prepare them because they’re not at a development to level yet to completely understand what they’re in for. Will point to the stomach all the time and we say mama has a baby. He doesn’t get it. I deal with kindergarteners, 24 kindergarteners day in and day out and for some reason that just seems so much easier than this. Some of the things that were suggested to me was prolonging the patients time, so when he wants something, we try to wait a little bit and say hold on, mama’s busy to give them kind of used to maybe unoccupied.
We bought a baby doll just a little doll that John kind of carries around it comes in hides. We should probably but more books and stuffs with pictures of babies because I think that that would help too but we haven’t invested in that yet so, things that I do with my students that I think that I could relate to him and that helping him prepare are kind of, there might be student that’s feeling blue or need s one extra attention and I’ll spend a little bit more one on one time with him that day.
The other thing is learn to be part of a team and that’s something that is foster in my classroom is the whole idea of we work together and multitask and I think that’s what I’ll do with him while I’m taking care of the baby or feeding or changing her, I’ll have him help me or say, can you get mommy a diaper.
My philosophy is always that every child is a unique individual and some need more attention than others and all of tem are important and no matter where they are in their growth and development, it’s just kind of all being able to cue in on them, I hope I’ll be able to do that, hopefully my classroom training has brought me around being able to be intoned to that we’ll see.
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