"She's NOT Sharing!"
Oh, I hate them.
If you have more than one child you understand.
The definition of "sharing" for any 3 or 4-year-old is really "she's not giving me exactly what I want at the very moment I want it"
My girls do fight but honestly for the most part they get along, however, when it comes to a toy or a game or a pillow or a blanket or a small crumb they've found on the floor - if one of them has it and the other one wants it then all I hear is crying and tears and the utter angst of a 4-year-old little girl.
With my older two I had the "advantage" of saying to my oldest, "he's younger be nice to him" but now...
Now they're all the same age so they are on equal footing so to speak - no one is younger or older - I can't say that so I'm left with the dilemma of how to intervene. Most of the time the fighting occurs out of my view - they're in another room and I have NO idea who had the item first and they're looking to me to resolve the situation.
Ultimately I let them know that they need to work it out among themselves but oh how I hate those words...
(Photo taken on St. Patrick's Day on a field trip to Harris Teeter - as if I'm not there enough already!!)
1 comment:
love checking in on you guys!! my deal with the fussing over a toy was, "here I'll take it for a while if you can't figure out a way to share it nicely." they were better about sharing but maybe just more careful that I never heard the fussing over a thing!!
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