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This article presents a series of brief diary entries of observations on the reactions to the birth of a brother of a four-year-old girl. The girl's behavior and attitudes toward the brother, the parents and herself are clearly brought out. Regressive, competitive, and destructive responses as well as adaptive, ego-strengthening, identification responses are nicely illustrated.