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[quote=Anonymous]Yes the Ames books are fantastic. Your Two Year, Your Three Year Old, etc.

Best advice I got was to make the older child part of taking care of the baby.  Baby crying and two year old crying because trying to put on his shoes:  Help the 2 yr old FIRST while saying, "let's hurry so we can take care of baby."  Also, giving the older child a job related to the baby.  My ds was 3 but his job was to give us a diaper when we changed the baby.  The diapers were right under the changing table but he was very proud of this job.  He would get one out of the bin and hand it to us.

Finally we did the whole 'baby gives a gift to older sibling when born' thing at the hospital. When ods first met yds, we were like - the baby brought you this present.  It is just part of our family story now and my ods was like 11 when he said, "I don't know how he gave me a present when he was a new baby.  I never figured that out."  lol  Basically implying he knew it was us.  I picked out something that I knew we would keep forever because of course it is sentimental.  We did a few schleich horses.  I feel like this set them off on the right foot.

My kids don't fight and haven't really ever fought with each other. Now they are a teen and tween and they bicker a little but that is it.

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