What works for me...
10/28/2008 at 9:11 am
"The annoying little brother who just broke their Lego tower will be best man at their wedding someday." Oh my word. Thanks for making me cry this morning, Shannon! We've also had the brothers march around the dining room table holding hands and saying, "I love you because you're my brother." They end up running and laughing around lap two. I think one big thing is that we expect them to get along. So many people dread having more than one or two kids simply because they expect it to be trouble. We introduced the new baby as "our" new baby, not "my" new baby. Even from when the new baby is itty bitty we lavish praise on them for helping, making the baby smile, sharing toys with the baby etc. Right now my kids are 8, 5, 3 and 20 months and honestly their favorite friends are each other. Also, and this sounds like a side note when it is really the entire focus. When we found out we were pregnant with our first we started praying earnestly for his future sibling relationships. And each time we were pregnant after that we continued that prayer.


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