Help Dealing With A Mean Little Sister

Nonna2Dreja

Nonna2Dreja

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My Granddaughter, Aja Nicole will be 2 years old the end of July and let me tell you "she is as cute as she is mean"....If she is not pinching, digging, biting her 3 year old brother then she's slapping him....We have put her in her bedroom in timeout and told her this is totally bad behavior....We've even told her brother to do it back to her so she knows how it feels, but it has not deterred her....Every time she does something mean to him she has the biggest smile of satisfaction on her face because she was able to make him cry again....

Has anyone else ever dealt with this before? Please give me some suggestions....:)
 
I would definitely be calling your pediatrician for a referral to a child development physician...that needs to be stopped! It's amazing what these people that SPECIALIZE in this type of thing can do to help situations like this! Please call before someone gets seriously hurt (and especially if it would happen to someone else's child). We went through Children's Mercy Hospital Develoopemental Department. {{hugs}} and good luck!
 
I agree with Sharon. The smiling is a little disturbing. Call her pediatrician and ask for a referral. We had a problem with my daughter and it ended up being caused by some medication she'd never been on before and once we stopped the meds, the behavior stopped, but I would really recommend a behavior specialist. She's old enough to know that it's wrong.
 
Thank you both so much....I will tell my daughter to contact her Pediatrician a.s.a.p. Aja does know what she is doing is wrong and surprisingly, so far she only does this to her brother....BUT I am afraid it will eventually carry over to her doing it to other children....Around other people/children she's as good as gold and you'd never know she was this mean--'til she's at home....:(
 
Have you tried having your grandson tell his sister he does not like it and it really hurts him? Sometimes having the child who is being hurt verbalize what it makes him feel like instead of trying to show her helps. Also while she is doing it have the two of them play where they can be supervised at all time by someone and as soon as she starts to show signs she is going to do it remove her from him and have her sit in a chair where she can see him still playing but tell her until she can start being nice and not hurting she cannot play herself. Also talk to the pediatrician.
 
My youngest seemed a little bit too satisfied when he hurt one of his siblings. I found that giving the hurt child a lot of extra exagerated love in front of him helped. But something clicked at 3.5 and he started to show remorse for his poor behaviour. So I'm not sure if there was a developmental thing that happened or just the consistant displine helped.
 
Jessica & Jannylynn, Thank you both! We will definitely try your suggestions as well as talking to the Pediatrician....:thumbup:
 
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