Ok - I know he doesn’t know what ‘hate’ is.. he’s only 3, but I’m really struggling. 😢
The last few weeks DS1 has decided Daddy is the flavour of the month. Happens from time to time where he favours one of us over the other, I can cope with that and guess it’s normal. For some reason this just feels different.
DS1 will now not let me take him to the toilet, play with him, give him dinner etc without kicking up a fuss that he wants Daddy to do it. Tonight I wasn’t even able to bath him or put his PJ’s on without Daddy being there.
He tells me things like ‘you’re not my best friend, Daddy is’ ‘you’re not my best Mummy’ and says No if I try to give him a cuddle.
DH has always been the more ‘fun’ parent so put it down to that normally but it’s starting to feel like DS1 genuinely wants nothing to do with me.
We do talk about baby brother, we’ve told him how amazing it’ll be being a BIG brother, and normally DS1 will say he’s excited and talk about all the things he will do with baby brother etc.. we’ve tried to keep it positive and casual. I don’t go on and on about baby but we do talk about it to DS1 directly maybe every other day. Could it really be a little bit of jealousy kicking in already? I didn’t think that would really happen until baby arrives!
There’s probably no real solution to this, hopefully someone has been through the same and will tell me it’s just another shitty phase that will pass (and quickly!!) 😞