Child's jealousy
This is the first jealousy every person feels in his or her life. It is the most unconscious and cruel jealousy. There are a number of shades of this life children are not able to realise. They see the world in black-and-white, in good-and-bad and they are not able to realise the most delicate shades of this life. So, they have parents they love and they recognise them as their own. A baby can't imagine that parents can love someone else but not him or her. And so as they feel that there is someone else their parents care about he or she feels angry and jealousy appears.
The most common kind of child's jealousy is a jealousy caused with appearance of the second baby. A child is used to be the only baby in the family and used to receive all the attention of the parents. But, another tiny person appears and so parents have no time for him or her anymore. It is a child, and a child is not able to realise what the baby means and that a baby needs constant care as it is small and helpless. A child recognise the parents' care about baby as neglecting of him or her, a child believes that they don't love him or her anymore and that is the baby the one who stalled the love.
As a result of such jealousy the anger and hate appear and become common attitude of a child towards baby. Usually, such jealousy disappears as a child grows elder and starts to realise the real state of things. Though, it is important for parents to notice the changes in their child's behaviour in order not to miss a high time to explain to him or her what goings on and to calm him or her down. In case if they miss the moment they will face some serious troubles in time.
Another kind of jealousy typical for children is a jealousy for stepfather or stepmother. When people get divorced they usually find another people they are in love with. So, they start their relations and the time comes when they introduce a new love to their child. Sometimes child recognise those as a new love of mother or a father, but sometimes they recognise those as people who want to take the mother or father away. They feel the lack of attention as a great amount of time of a parent is spent for his or her new love and so baby feels abandoned and forgotten.
It is very important to explain to a child the real state of things. It is wrong to believe that he or she is too young to understand you, realise that your child is a person and so he or she is able to realise a number of things no matter on the age. The only thing they are not able to realise is why the parent neglects him or her and spent the time with another person. It is also important to say that a new "mom" or "dad" didn't come in order to replace the real mom or dad. It is also important for your child to realise that you still love him or her just as much as you loved him or her before.