My 5-year-old girl is not fond of my brother's 13-year-old daughter. She was born in front of me and I was with her during her growing up years, and my best niece. How do I help bond them?

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As both of them are girls, there must be some common ground that you can leverage so both of them can get along? Maybe a favourite movie, a favourite ice cream flavour? If your niece has some clothes or toys from her younger days, you can suggest that she presents them to your daughter. Sharing clothes and toys are not only common to siblings, cousins do so as well. Perhaps this will start a bond of sorts between the two. You can also plan more activities where the two can find more opportunities to spend time together -- shopping, movies, babysitting :)

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