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When your 6-year-old wants to leave her baby brother at the hotel but also loves him fiercely. Sibling jealousy is real and completely normal. She told me straight up - “Can we just leave him here?” And honestly? I’m grateful she can say it out loud. Because here’s what we forget: toddlers and babies feel this too. They just don’t have the words yet. The hitting, the regression, the clinginess - it’s all the same jealousy, just expressed differently. My daughter gets to process these big feelings with language. Younger kids are stuck feeling it without being able to name it. And you know what? There’s zero shame in this. Jealousy when you suddenly have to share your parents’ attention isn’t bad behavior - it’s a normal human response. We’ve normalized it in our home. She can tell me she’s jealous. She can say she misses having me all to herself. And then we figure it out together. That 6-year age gap? It’s a blessing in disguise. Because she can tell me exactly what she needs, and we can work through it as a team. Your older kid feeling jealous? That’s not a parenting fail. That’s just honest emotions doing their thing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​# On a lighter note - calling out the older ones to answer this - did you also feel like leaving your younger sister or bother at the hotel 🙈🙈😝😝 SiblingJealousy #SecondChildStruggles #ToddlerBehavior #indianparentcoach #ParentingTips

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This post was published on 23rd December, 2025 by Ankita on her Instagram handle "@followyourchild (Ankita B Chandak | Montessori Expert | Parenting Coach)". Ankita has total 497.2K followers on Instagram and has a total of 1.0K post. Ankita receives an average engagement rate of 0.52% per post on Instagram. This post has received 56 comments which are lower than the average comments that Ankita gets. Overall the engagement rate for this post was lower than the average for the profile. #ParentingTips #SecondChildStruggles #indianparentcoach #ToddlerBehavior has been used frequently in this Post.