How You Can Encourage Sharing At Home!

It's perfectly normal for your tot to find the idea of sharing tricky. Children generally understand the concept of sharing at about age three. But it will take a while longer before they're prepared to do it. Here's how you can encourage sharing at home..

Witnessing your tots argue over a toy—which hasn’t been played with by either child in months—it becomes clear why seasoned parents of siblings like to joke that when it comes to having multiple children, you have to buy two of everything! Sharing is challenging for all children—and siblings are no exception. You’ll be relieved to know that buying two (or more!) of every toy isn’t the most practical solution. Sharing is a skill that needs to be taught, especially during toddlerhood. Toddlers are just beginning to learn about ownership and can be possessive about their things. They think everything belongs to them, so they may be possessive about their siblings things, too. Fortunately, with time, children’s patience grows and they learn to sort “mine” and “yours” and to take turns. However, there are going to be a few years where struggles over toys is going to be par for the course.

The way you approach teaching how to share will be different with each child. It’s good to look at the situation from each of child’s perspective.

YOUR OLDER SIBLING’S FEELINGS