Play with little brother
You hear the play tip over into whining from the other room, because the little brother cannot keep up with the pace and the older sibling is tired of holding back. The visual support below shows how a game can be set up so both fit, without it ending in tears.
♂Playing with cars
Two brothers play together with a toy car and building blocks.
About this visual support
At first the mood is good, but after a while you notice the older sibling sighing and the little brother starting to cry over a rule he did not understand. Playing with a younger sibling means constantly lowering the pace, simplifying the rules and giving way a little, and nobody can keep that up forever without it starting to chafe. It is often the older child who ends up carrying the play.
Pictures help both children play the same game. When the rules sit on a picture, rather than only in the older child's head, they are easier to share with a little brother who is not there yet. Choose a game with few and clear steps, and let the older sibling be the one who shows the pictures to the little brother, so the helper role becomes something to be proud of rather than a burden.
In Routined you can build a simple picture game that suits two children of different ages and bring it out when they are going to play together. You can try the app free for fourteen days.
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