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My best friend has a 5 year old and my daughter is 16 months old. My best friend is amazing with my daughter, and my daughter LOVES her so much. The problem I’m having is her son has a lot of behaviours, she’s in the process of trying to get help with him as they think he might be on the spectrum in some capacity. Her son loves my daughter and she loves him too. The issue is he is VERY aggressive, if he sees his mom giving any attention to my daughter then he’s throwing toys at her, pushing her over, going out of his way to hurt her and when we try to correct it he just laughs at us and gets worse and worse. I am not sure what to do. When he’s in a good mood they play so nicely but then something just switches and he will just terrorize her. I don’t know if we should keep having play dates but they love each other so much. I’m struggling. Has anyone had a similar situation and have any advice?

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I think you need to ask yourself how you would feel if you allow this to continue and your daughter is seriously injured. She is too little to defend herself or understand what is happening right now.

My three younger siblings are all on the spectrum for autism and I also have a nephew diagnosed with autism. 3 out of the 4 are all high functioning and I don't believe that being on a spectrum is a free pass to letting this sort of behaviour slide. I believe they need very clear and consistent boundaries and maybe it will help if he has been given a heads up a day before you arrive.

Suggest to his mum that he could have special activities that are just for when you're over. Keep the visits short and gradually make them longer before the unwanted behaviour starts, that way seeing you and the baby isn't connected to him being in trouble. Could you do something with him for 5 minutes while your friend is holding baby?

My nephew who is 10, is horrible... He makes me and my children feel unsafe because he has never been told a firm "NO", so he laughs at authority and respects no one. My family blames autism but I just cannot get on the same page as them. He looks for reactions from people and he is sneaky...

It is fair to place a boundary for the sake of your daughter.

You could accept to meet with her for coffee dates but not play dates, not with your children.

Yes I deal with this with my friend and her 4 yo daughter. I have to watch them closely cus yes she will be sweet hug her and everything then after a while she will be territorial over toys or even try to hit my daughter or put her shoe in my daughters face it’s so annoying and overwhelming. I go through the same thoughts like is it even worth hanging out w my friend.

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If/when your child’s grandparent watches them, do they actually do things with them?? Like do they try to feed them healthy, brush their teeth, comb their hair, go on walks or to the park and play games?

I got back last night from a little weekend getaway, it’s the longest I’ve ever been away from my kids. Friday-Monday. Anyways, my mil begged to keep the kids and I let her for 3 of the days, but when I got home my oldest told me they watched tv the whole time.. and ate a ton of junk food, like I kept asking well okay what did you do besides watch tv and they just kept saying nothing 🫠 on top of that my 5 year olds curly hair was matted. And I’m just so.. ugh I’m just so annoyed. I also had a plan for the kids so they didn’t have to go over there, I only let them because she asked, but if you’re a grandparent you shouldn’t insist on keeping the kids if you’re going to do jack sh*t the whole time. It sucks that I feel like I can’t trust any of my kids grandparents to actually care for them responsibly. My oldest said that she brushed my youngests teeth “because Mimi didn’t do it”🫠 never again

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Ive only got one child (24 months) and my partner and I pretty much never get to watch or do anything we like. He is a very intense child...he also will not go to sleep before 9 so we either have to stay up really late to do any of our stuff (as my partner does) or just clean up, shower, and bed (like me...i need sleep way more then him)
We have toddler cartoons on like teletubbies sometimes at home but he loses his shit if we try and put on our TV or regular channels. He will go and get the remote and shove it at us and cry until we put his stuff on...
I feel he's ruling the roost a bit now....because I have pretty low tolerance for constant moaning and crying and struggle to constantly come up with new activities that he won't break or make a total mess with

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She says she's hungry, I get her food she doesn't want it, I make something else, she doesn't want it. Is been a recurring cycle all day.

I have followed the advice to give her soft bland foods and cool food but I don't know what to do anymore... I've tried porridge, mash potato, eggs, ice pop, yoghurt, mashed banana, scrambled eggs.

Then she screams and cries for icecream.

I have given her medicine to help.

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I told him I feel like our marriage is a lie and we should never have went through with the wedding, had I known I wasn’t the only female he had eyes for.
We’re both in therapy now and I’m trying my best to trust him again, but it’s so hard. We have a four month old boy and he is the love of my life. I just want us to be a happy family, but this feels like something I can’t get past.

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If/when your child’s grandparent watches them, do they actually do things with them?? Like do they try to feed them healthy, brush their teeth, comb their hair, go on walks or to the park and play games?

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