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Show Older Child: Send Baby Back love him, he will accept his newborn as a full-fledged member of the family more readily and completely. I By NANC Y MOORE THURMOND Even under the best of circumstances, cir-cumstances, there will be times when the older child will want to send the baby back to the hospital CO D. As long as he does not hurt the baby, low-key low-key your reaction to such momentary Hashes of hostility. hostil-ity. Flay down the new baby do not gloat or ooh and ah over him for hours on end. THE MORE You make over him in front of the older child, the more he will view him with a jaundiced eye. Parents who coochie-coo a new baby without with-out noticing the other child or children in the family are asking for a hornet's nest of trouble. Remember that the older child is used to being Number One, the center of attention, in the spotlight. He was the baby until you brought the doll-like bundle in the front door. A child normally has difficulty sharing parents' love and affection with other siblings, let alone with a babv. THE RELATIONSHIP of a child to a new baby will be of the love-hate variety at first. Your job will be to suppress or ignore the feelings of jealousy by bringing out the positive feelings of love and affection. If you convey to the child that there has been no change in the way you and your husband 'i fo Ure "W hat cured him of arguing with his wife?" "Arguing with his wife." |