Before officially entering school to learn knowledge, most children have not learned to share. Parents also fail to realize how important it is to teach their children how to share. If a child is willing to share his toys with his friends, such as small wooden train tracks and wooden musical percussion toys, then he will slowly learn to think about problems from the perspective of others. Not only that, sharing toys will make children more aware of the fun of playing with toys, because playing with friends is far more fun than playing alone. So how can we teach them to share?
What Is the Definition of Sharing for Children?
Children under the age of three have been spoiled by their family members, so they will take it for granted that the world revolves around them, as long as the toys they can touch are theirs. If you try to take a wooden drag toy from their hands, they will immediately cry or even beat people. At this stage, we have no way to reason with the children, but we can communicate with them slowly, encourage and practice sharing things, and let the children slowly accept this concept.
After the age of three, children gradually understand the teachings of adults, and they can also realize that sharing is a very warm thing. Especially when they enter the kindergarten, the teachers will let the children take turns to play some wooden educational toys, and warn them that if the time is not passed to the next classmate, then they will be punished slightly. When they practice taking turns and playing together at home (multiple times), children can understand the concepts of sharing and waiting.
Skills and Methods for Children to Learn to Share
Many children are unwilling to share mainly because they feel that they will lose the attention of adults, and this shared toy is likely to not return to their hands. So we can teach the children to play some collaborative toys together and tell them that they need to complete a goal together in this game to get rewards. One of the most common cooperative toys is wooden puzzle toys and wooden imitation toys. These toys allow children to quickly become partners and share games together.
Second, don’t punish children just because they don’t want to share. Children’s thinking is completely different from that of adults. If they are unwilling to share toys with their friends, it does not mean that they are stingy. Therefore, we must listen to the children’s ideas, start from the perspective of their consideration, and tell them tell them the benefits of sharing toys.
When many children see other people’s toys, they always think that the toy is more fun, and they even snatch the toy. In this case, we can tell them to exchange their own toys with others, and set the exchange time. Sometimes a tough attitude is also needed, because children don’t always listen to reason. For example, if a child wants personalized wooden train tracks in the hands of other children, then he must come up with a different wooden toy in exchange.
The best way to make a child learn to be tolerant is to let him witness this quality with his own eyes, so parents should share ice cream, scarves, new hats, wooden animal dominoes, etc. with their children. When sharing toys, the most important thing is to let children see their parents’ behaviors in giving, obtaining, compromising and sharing with others.
Post time: Jul-21-2021