Soooo, we have hit a little hurdle in our house. Miles is up and EVERYWHERE. There is no containing this kid and this includes keeping him from his brother and his brother's toys. If I had a nickle for every time I hear "No Miles, NOOOOO" I would be loaded. The problem is I don't really know the best way to deal with this situation. I want Jax to learn sharing and realize that everything isn't his. On the other hand, I really empathize with him when he is playing with something and Miles comes over grabbing at everything. I feel like he should have the right to have some things that are off limits to his baby brother, but Jax wants everything off limits and, well, that can't happen.
Funny enough, one of the two books Jax wants to read every night before bed is his "brother book."
It pretty accurately describes this phase. "The one day he began to move! Creeping and crawling closer and closer; coming toward me. First he touched, next he grabbed -- all my stuff!
A big problem is, Miles is stronger than the average 9 month old. He easily pulls some toys out of Jax's hands. Of course he just wants to play with Jax and still acts like a 9 month old. To Jax though, he seems much more like a Bro-zilla than a baby brother.
So I don't know the right answer here. There are a couple of Jax's favorite toys that I try to make sure Miles doesn't get a hold of. Other things have to be shared. However, Miles can't really play with some of the toys the way that Jax wants to play (as in Miles just wants to try to eat many toys) so if Miles would just mess up Jax's way of playing, like say building a block tower, I try to redirect Miles to something else. It is a learning process for us all and it is times like these that I really wish kids came with instruction manuals.
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