As Maida and Skogen are playing more together, now, and have recently started sharing a bedroom (therefore spending more time together), I have been trying to teach them the value of having a sibling.
Sometimes it seems that everything has to be a battle... If you want a toy, you have to pinch your brother so he'll give it to you... If you want a drink of juice, you have to push your sister down so that you can get to the best cup first... If you hear your brother ask mom to hold him, you have to run as fast as you can and jump on her lap first... it doesn't have to be this way!
I pray daily that I am able to come up with ways of showing these two munchkins how to love, respect, honor, and value each other. Not growing up with a sibling close in age, I am foreign to this whole dynamic of siblings. However, I really hope that I am facilitating a life-long friendship between these two and that the bond they are creating will be a blessing to each of them as they grow.
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