My 2 year old pays no attention to his brother

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My baby is 6 months. My older child has just turned 2 yrs old.

I've recently noticed my older dc goes through each day not really engaging or playing with his brother. I get they are at very different stages in terms of play but I'm just wondering if there should be more interaction?

He does acknowledge him and talk about him and sometimes goes up and kisses him but other then that he just gets on with his own thing and says stop it when the baby grabs a book he's reading or toy etc.

There is a 20 month age gap. Will it stay like this with big bro seeing little bro as nuisance or will they gradually get closer? Just looking for mums with same age gap who've been through something similar..
I see other toddlers being very affectionate to younger siblings albeit on social media and probably not like that all the time and may be a bit older

@DeFuckingLightful thats really lovely

My 6yo read my 3yos bedtime story tonight and tucked her in. It was bloody lovely. And as my pis above, this was a child who was totally unbothered by her sister as baby. Just give it time.

Ime they will fight like cat and dog until they leave home

3 years is a big enough age gap to get v along.its when they are close together t hat they fight

I've about the same age gap. They're 10 &12 now and play together loads. They also bicker loads. I'd say it's a bit early for your two to interact.
DC1 always regressed/went through a phase when DC 2 hit a milestone.
We kept three plastic toy boxes, one for DC1 only, one for DC2 and a joint one. As a lot of the baby toys were DC1's, if DC2 was playing with something DC1 wanted, he was allowed to swap it for anything in DC2's toy box. He wasn't allowed to just take it, he had to offer something in return. I read this tip on here and it worked for a good year and a half (until DC2 started to make up her own mind!) and beyond.
They only really started playing together once DC2 could talk enough to tell DC1 what to do

My 2.5 year old is mostly like this with her baby brother. The baby gazes adoringly at her all day and laughs his head off while she blanks him. What I find amazing is that one of them can be wailing the house down in the same room and the other will appear to literally not notice.

Lets face it, babies are fairly boring if they are not your own. 2 year olds do not have a long attention span.

My brother is 23 months older than me, the only time we actively played together was wither in a big gang of local kids or on holiday when we didn't have much choice.

@MiddleParking so true 😂

@OMGOMGOMGHELP good tip! My older dc doesn't like it when the baby grabs his toys so thank you will try this

The person who said two year olds don't play with other two year olds is right!

I have 19 months between two boys. Until the younger one could have a good conversation (around 4), they would sit next to each other in the car in silence but both talk to us!

They were affectionate if we said 'say hello', 'say goodbye' and would happily do the same activity next to each other (play doh, painting, racing roud on bikes, etc.) but there wasn't a huge amount of interaction instigated by them.

At 7.5 and 9yrs now they are fantastic friends and do things together every day! Please don't worry!

Babies aren't very interesting!