However, over the last couple of weeks we’ve seen him gagging her with the straw of his water cup trying to get her to drink out of it, give her one of his oyster crackers which we didn’t realize until we heard her coughing it up, and most recently I heard her crying and found him trying to brush her teeth. I know it must sound like we are unattentive parents, but, honestly these things happen in the time it takes to get something out of the refrigerator or to use the bathroom.

It’s hard to know how to handle the situation because we don’t want to yell at him for trying to share. And he’s still a little too young to understand when we try to tell him he is hurting his sister. It’s just a really awkward phase that our family is in and it’s led me to believe that my son is either very generous or a diabolical genius trying to get rid of his little sister by pretending to lover her too much.

Have you been in this situation? How did you handle it?