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Tell Your Toddler Stories

If your arms are full with a newborn, picking up a book to read with a toddler may not be realistic. Instead of reading a story, tell one. While you can make up a tale about anything (you can start with whatever your toddler is into at the time—superheroes, trains, princesses, etc.), you also can tell him stories about when he was a baby, just like his new sibling.﻿﻿

Toddlers get a kick about hearing about even the most mundane details of what they did when they were babies. You can also try narrating what you are doing to care for the baby and then compare it to how you cared for the toddler.