Reply to Teen burdened by younger sibling

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Teen burdened by younger sibling"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you all. This is resonating finally— the older child is feeling very upset and she is only expressing it.

This gets me inside her head. I couldn’t imagine before why she would do that at the moment I got him to calm down.
But now I see it wasn’t really especially purposeful, just mad/letting it out.

I knew she was upset. I thought she was old enough to just say so, and she has. But I get it, she’s still undeveloped like him. It will be fine as we continue to work with him, and over and time. His therapy is amazing and I can see that he’s on a path to “grow out” of it. Before, before we had therapy, he was on a path to grow up with it.[/quote]

So what are your plans to help her deal with feeling upset and resentful?   Other than.... further focusing on the youngest and how they will grow out of it.   Can you have an empathetic conversation with your teen?   Or are you just going to tell them you didn't realize they were still underdeveloped and that you thought they were more mature than they are?  Hint....only one of these is the right thing to do. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics