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[quote=Anonymous]Your nephew is in a totally different phase than your son. If he was my kid, I'd be making him play a little nicer with his cousin, but I also think you sound like you're overly focused on your kid's experience. Let them work out their own relationship. And maybe its never a good one, but your DS needs to learn how to navigate people outside of your intervention. And that might mean watching him be disappointed and hurt and then talking to him about what tools he has.

"Sammy, Jack doesn't have to play with you, and it doesn't seem like he's being very nice, so maybe you shouldn't want to play with him either, would you like to <insert activity> instead. Instead of framing this has how to change your nephew, frame it as how to give your son the tools to deal with a kid that doesn't want to play with him. We can only control ourselves, not the people around us, and this is an important life lesson.

All that said, if I saw the kid being actively mean to my kid I'd call them out on it. This is your nephew right? I would just say, 'Hey Jack you're really making Sammy feel bad, if you don't want to play give him some space but there is no reason to be mean.' [/quote]

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