What To Do??

[Vito's Mommy]

My friend's 2 yr old son is making a bad habit of screamimg in his 3 mo old brother's face while he's asleep. My freind is at the end of her rope. Nothing seems to make the older son know that it's not okay.

WWYD? TIA

[Vito's Mommy]

? Anyone, Bueller, Bueller ?

[WuWei]

Play with the 2 year old while the baby is sleeping?

Pat

[Vito's Mommy]

Mom does that for sure. But the moment she goes to the bathroom or to get a drink or whatever, he's off to do his monster yell at baby.
The other day the 3 of them were in the docs waiting room and a lady was dozing off. The 2 yr old looked at mom and said, "shsh sleeping" and points the lady. He's concerned about a stranger's nap but not the baby's. lol.

I'm sure it's a new baby is hogging my time/getting a little more attention at the moment but he's not understanding that it scares babe. Time outs and discussions aren't working. I guess they're trying to get both the boys nap times to be in sync again.

[LilWin]

DD did this for while. It drove me nuts!! Just when DS was asleep, she would run up to the bed and go: WAAAAHH!!!!! : It stopped after a while, I guess it wasn't fun anymore. But DH made a little hook at the top of the door that prevented her to storm into the room. That worked, of course. Nowadays I don't need the hook anymore, she just stays out of the bedroom when he's asleep. Now that I think of it, maybe because it would grab my attention every time when she bolted for the bedroom and I would run after her, it made a great game for her. Anyway, as I said, it stopped after a while.

[bdavis337]

My son was 4 when his brother was born. He liked to stand in his room and "watch him sleep", but would all too frequently poke and prod at the baby, obviously waking him up. After a particularly rough night and morning I finally had the baby sleeping and I had plans for a shower and quick meal (3 days showerless eating granola bars, you know how it goes....) when I'm standing naked in the bathroom ready to run the bath and hear the baby crying. Oldest son standing in the hallway looking sheepish. So I burst into tears right there, I couldn't help it. The 4 year old was so upset to see how upset *I* was that he started crying.....obviously, my son was older than 2, but it really worked out for him to see how important Baby Sleep is for everyone!

[Vito's Mommy]

Thanks gals I will pass on the info to my gf. Her dh is on his 6 wk bonding leave so maybe he can make a hook for the door. The seeing Mom upset thing just might work. The 2 yr old threw sand in my ds's eyes and he was upset to see my son crying.