The problem was, "I've been pushing her because she wants to be near me and I don't always want her to be near me", so says he. Ah- ha.
The tether's not fun. It just means he has to stop in the middle of eating his breakfast to follow me to the kitchen to refill my coffee because I'm not going to leave him alone with his sister if he might hurt her.
If she's just crying because he's pushing her off when she's crawling over top of him well then yeah they're just going to have to take time and outgrow that because they climb all over each other (and me) all the time and yeah, sometimes it is annoying.
I jumped to the wrong conclusions looking for deeper meanings because every time my son's in my lap my daughter runs over. I know he gets up when she came over. I try to hold them both but he gets up. But the problem wasn't rivalry the problem was little kids can be pests. I guess 4 yr olds are pretty straight forward. And, yeah, I guess the hubby sees me trying to get a little "me" time when he gets home. Good point.
