Has anyone else had to deal with this? Blake has started reverting to babyhood, the only reason I can figure is, he sees how much attention Nick gets, being a baby & all, so he tries to imitate. Lately when I (or sometimes other people) ask him questions, he'll just say "baa" and refuse to answer. He also crawls a lot & tells me he's "learning to crawl". I've decided I need to spend some one-on-one time with him when Nick is sleeping so he feels important to me without having to act up. I've noticed once in awhile when we have company he'll just talk & talk bluestreak to them & I'm thinking, maybe I don't pay enough attention to him, he sure doesn't talk like that to me. Any suggestions?

We're in the same boat here - ditto everything you said.

We have a ds 4 almost 5, dd 2 almost 3 and dd 5 mo. We also went thriugh that stage with them. One on one time definately helped as did finding "big kid" things that only they are allowed to do or play with because they are so "grown-up". Also we set expectations on their behaviour. For instance, if they just started making noises for their juice, they didn't get it until they asked for it politely with words, same with anything else they wanted or needed. I think sometimes they see that baby make noise and get immediate attention so they think it works better that words. Our dd right now is spending all her time being a "kitty-cay" complete with crawling and meeoooows! :lol: They will grow out of it when they see there are perks to being a big kid.

Well ours did this a bit - but being near 4 we just asked them to stop doing it please and ensured they had attention and just basically made them feel important and big, gave them tasks they had never done before to show them they were the big kids now and that was very important and they didn't need to act like Matilda to be loved or gain attention.

They now love being the "big kids" and the behaviour has stopped

Great advice so far! We're in the same boat - our oldest will be two next week and she's competing with a 6-week old. One thing that has really helped us is making a big helper out of our oldest. She brings us the baby's diapers and wipes, she helps feed the baby, etc. When she does these things, we praise her and tell her what a big girl she is. She's still reverting some - she like to be rocked like a baby, now. But for the most part, she enjoys being a big girl helper. :D

Best of luck with this stage! I know you'll do just fine. :wink:

my 13 m/o is starting temper tantrums. i think b/c of the baby. when he doesn't get his way, he throws himself on the floor and bangs his head into the floor. It's kinda scarry, but the doc said it's "normal", that a lot of kids do this kind of thing when new babies pop along. I dunno?