Saturday, October 27, 2007

Sibling Difficulties

In the midst of all the activity involved in getting his sister home, Harry's feelings have been all over the place. Today, he came home from school with the second teacher report in two days - he knocked over another kid's blocks, wouldn't listen, and so on. When we read the report, we took away his bedtime stories and computer/TV privileges for the day. He was not happy about it and acted out to the point where we sent him upstairs to his room, where he spent some time crying before he fell asleep.

So I just came downstairs from talking about it with him. He admitted to being worried over Xiao-Ling's arrival and not being the only child anymore. I told him that he will always be our son and will always be special, and having a daughter will never change that. He seemed to accept that and is in a much better mood - for now.

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