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🗓️ 15 November 2023
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When you’re an only child, it might feel nice to have all the attention for a few years until – DUN DUN DUN! – a little sibling comes along. Sometimes it feels like babies get all the attention. Why is that? To help us find the answer, we asked Dr. Ed Greene, early childhood psychologist and consultant for our sister podcast Charm Words.
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0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
0:04.0 | Moment of um. |
0:08.0 | Moment of um comes to you from 8 p.m. studios. I'm Anna Wegal. |
0:12.0 | Um. I'm Anna Weggle. Being a mom to a two-year-old is really, really fun. |
0:19.0 | Especially when she says things like, |
0:21.0 | for sure, when I ask her a question, or she says ding dong for some reason when we |
0:26.0 | cheers our milk or when she plays chase with her dad laughing hysterically the |
0:30.5 | whole time or when she says go to sleep mommy you're so tired even though it's the most fun it takes just about every cell in my body to keep her healthy, happy, occupied, clothed, fed, pottyed and |
0:46.8 | smiling. So I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around how I'm going to do |
0:50.9 | a good job taking care of her next year when her little brother arrives. |
0:55.2 | Do you have a younger sibling or have you been around babies? |
0:58.0 | They are helpless. Just like little warm needy lumps. But I know how much a heart can expand when you meet your kid |
1:05.2 | you're ready to do anything for them so what's going to happen when a second kid |
1:09.6 | comes on the scene and how am I going to be able to explain it to my toddler? |
1:13.0 | I wonder if my buddy Leo is an older sibling himself because he asked about this too. |
1:18.0 | Let's figure this out together Leo. |
1:20.0 | My name is Leo. |
1:22.0 | I'm from Columbus, Ohio, and my question is, why do |
1:26.3 | grown-ups give more attention to babies and kids? |
1:29.7 | I think that that's a great question. |
1:31.9 | With young children, babies and toddlers, we shouldn't ignore |
1:37.0 | them because they're learning at an early age how the world responds to them. |
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