Big brother role

Posted by Jeffrey on July 14, 2008

For months now, Jordan has also been anticipating the arrival of his younger sibling next month. We’ve also been telling him that soon he will be a big brother and he will have to take care of the baby too.

A few Sundays ago, he was full of laughter and joy as usual. Then at the breakfast table, with a serious face he asked us a question, it was a strange question. It went something like this (with the grammar fixed).

Jordan: Mommy, why was I born first?

Jo: ai? Why are you asking that Jordan?

Jordan: I don’t want to be the big brother. I want to be the little boy.

Jo: But you are still a little boy. You’re our little boy.

Jordan: But later we will have small baby?

Jo: It doesn’t matter. Being a big brother doesn’t mean you have to stop having fun and cannot playing games.

Jordan: oo.

So we kinda figured out that he thinks being a big brother means you can’t have fun anymore and he needs to be a big boy. After that question, my wife and I agreed that we shouldn’t emphasize too much on him being a “role model” for the younger one.

Now, we just remind him about all the fun things that we can do with a new baby in the house. Hopefully he will not be as nervous as his parents lah.

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