How to teach your child the art of sharing?
Out of many important skills of parenting teaching your child the importance of sharing is of quite significance. Art of sharing is not inborn and needs to be inculcated by parents themselves, so as to raise a well behaved child.
Often, children when are asked to share their toys or stuff with others tend to show erratic behaviors like screaming, crying, fighting or sobbing. This can not only prove to be embarrassing, but can also add to the problem on later stage. The problem of not sharing can specially trouble those parents with two or more kids, as this could lead to sibling rivalry.
Toddlers playing together tend to pick up fights solely based on sharing problem and this is absolutely normal to a point, but it does not mean that you can let your child misbehave all the time. Children learn more from action and which is why it is important for parents to include sharing activities at home, this teaches a child that sharing is a part of life.
When siblings are sitting together and one picks up a fight with other over a toy, it can be annoying but, as a parent you need to keep your cool and take it as an opportunity for teaching your children all about sharing.
Let your child know that sharing is a good thing, play a game at home with your husband in front if your child where you share your newspaper, books and remote. Ask your children to share your toys with each other on turn basis and when they do follow it, treat them nice with appraising words like ‘good boy’ or ‘good girl’ or ‘that’s my baby’. Hearing such words from their parents often make them do more such things, after all children do what they learn.
Make them realize that even when they share their toys will be theirs and eventually will come back to them.
For children who are too moody and tend to go wild when an another comes to play with their toys, parents need to at first handle things politely and should ask their child to let the other kid use his toys, if they fail to respond nicely and create a scene, its time to show some firmness.
Many parents think that to act strict with a toddler is wrong, but in reality teaching a toddler does require little show of authority, but being firm does not mean screaming back and slapping them for not sharing their toys.
When a child is not comfortable enough to share his toys and its time to turn him into a social kid, often when a child makes friends he automatically tends to share his toys with the new friends to stay with them. Take your child to parks, play school, locality birthday parties or invite other colony kids to your place for a play time, this will make your child more comfortable, this will open him to other children and add a sense of sharing in him.
Teaching a child to share is an important step in making him friendly, well behaved and selfless towards other children or the siblings.
