Situation 1
Two of my good friends had their babies last Friday and I could not be happier for them! It totally made my day to get two sets of such awesome news within hours of each other.
I was texting with one of them this afternoon and she mentioned how her older child is having to get a little less "mommy time" now that the new baby has arrived. I tried to think up something helpful to say, but I realized, I didn't have any advice for her. I lamely replied "I'm sure you guys will figure it out soon." But I've got nothing in the way of advice for more than 1 kid.
Situation 2
Yesterday we had our neighbor friend over to play. She is the youngest of 4 kids and precisely my daughter's age. I was so excited because Am and her usually play for hours and I had alot to get done. But for whatever reason my daughter was in a mood yesterday and as excited as she was to have her friend over she only wanted to play by herself. Her poor friend, after just an hour, decided she wanted to go home and I wasn't sure what to do except to walk her across the street to her house. I apologized to her mom and asked Am to apologize to her friend.
My daughter doesn't have other playmates in the house. She plays by herself alot and has gotten rather good at it. To top it off, when she does have a playmate it's Mom, Dad, or Grandma... and we let her tell us what to play. So as friendly and outgoing as she is, she hasn't learned to play well with other children.
Somehow, I'm going to have to figure out a way to change this...
Scenario made difficult by our decision to homeschool.
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