My Toddler Is Too Rough With His Sister

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Caitlin is alarmed by the aggressive way her 22-month-old son acts around his new baby sister. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
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0:12.4	Caitlin, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Hi, Dr. Laura, I have a quick question, hopefully it's a quick question for you.
0:22.0	I am struggling to make sure that my husband and I are
0:26.1	handling our reaction to our toddler hitting our newborn in a productive and healthy way. We've, you know, read parenting
0:37.1	books and whatnot, but I'm a little nervous that I might not be handling things
0:40.7	correctly with him.
0:49.0	Is he violent against any other kids or just his newborn sibling?
0:54.3	Just the newborn unless a kid, you know know grabs a toy out of his hands
1:00.3	okay well number one you keep him away from the baby That's number one. Then there's no opportunity for him to hit the baby.
1:09.8	Right. Okay. Just start there.
1:13.0	Madam, I know you just, anything, and you read and you don't know what, you feel bad, I get all that.
1:18.9	Just right now, eliminate the opportunity.
1:30.0	And so that means he's interacting in some other way with you or dad or his toys.
1:34.0	Eliminate the opportunity. period.
1:35.0	That's it.
1:37.0	That's all I want you to do right now.
1:39.0	Just eliminate it.
1:41.0	No, slapping his hands, no saying that's bad.
1:45.0	Just eliminate that he can't have the opportunity to do it.
1:50.0	Have you surprised how incredible that is.
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