Monday, February 28, 2011
My nephews
My sister is seven years older than me. She has two children, Jacob and Isaac. Jacob is five years old and Isaac is three weeks. Weeks ago I read an article in my oral communication class about the first born. The article basically talks about how is the behavior of the children when they are the first born and a new member comes to the family. Since Isaac born, Jacob has changed his behavior so much. Jacob has been always so polite and with very good behavior. However, in the last weeks he has had a little bad behavior. It is kind of sad because I think he feel that the attention everyone gave to him, now is divided for he and his brother. He is trying to get more attention for his parents, his grand parents and I. The good point is that both Jacob's parents and my parents understand very good this situation. All of us have managed this situation in a good way and Jacob is passing this situation very well. I think this a situation that all the parents have to know how handle it, because the challenge of the first orn is a situation that can affects all the family members.
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This is really interesting. It happening with many kids. Even if your attention to them is not changing at all they still fell unsafe because they are afraid that somebody will take their place in mom's and dad's life. It is really important to prepare kid for the situations like this and work hard to resolve this problem :)
ReplyDeleteYes, the parents has to make great effort to take care kid's emotions. It is very very important. I thought that your sister is lucky because she has some help to take care of her kids like you and the parents. I have three nephews in Japan and they are already teenagers. When they were little, I liked to play with them and I helped my sister a lot. However, I am here in the US by myself without help. I realized that raising kids are really hard job. At the same time, I realized that kids really give me a joy and happiness!!
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