Childrens books explaining different treatment for baby?
My son is almost 4 and his sister is 15 months. He's always been gentle, quiet and happy to follow directions. Recently he has shown a lot more defiance. He blatantly ignores and disregards what we say. We have to repeat things, raise voices, or give warnings to get his attention. He'll also just resort to grunting when he's upset and he is normally a very articulate child.
I think his recent (last month) change in behavior could be due to a combination of factors, including being at preschool with less teacher supervision, his sister being more active and getting more of our attention, or him just being that age.
But a couple of times he has asked why his sister does not get "thinking step" (our version of time out). I think he sees her "getting away" with things or just blatantly ignoring us. Obviously we are more willing to repeat things for her and give her extra warnings, but we do take things away from her or physically prevent her from doing certain things. We have not started thinking step with her because we think she is too young.
I think it would really help him to read about why it might be that she has a different set of rules. That's basically what it comes down to. We try to keep things as similar as possible and explain to him that she can't understand as much as he can and that he can help us by teaching her the rules, just like how he taught her a bunch of other stuff. (Remember how she didn't know how to walk?)
Does anyone know of a good book? Our librarian is stumped. What we've found has usually been either about bringing home baby or about older siblings who annoy each other.
