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My daughter wasn’t quite 3 when we brought home her baby brother. Disoriented, sleep-deprived, and cranky, we waded through the first two months, doing our best to keep our oldest content and fed, but largely unaware of how the transition was affecting her.

It was only when we started to pull ourselves out of survival mode and find a new normal as a family of four that we discovered our 3-year-old was hungry for more than just family dinner. Date nights at home — for me and my daughter and for my husband and my daughter — became a remedy for a host of emotional and behavioral issues that come from the delicate transition to two children.

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