How To Teach Your Toddler To Share?

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By Anwesha Barari

Monday, September 26, 2011, 17:11

It is very important to teach your child to share at a tender age so that the message goes down deep and stays there. You may feel your little toddler is too young to learn sharing but there is no age too young to drive home a good message. When children are small and accept your word with unquestioning belief that is the time you must utilize to shape their personalities.

But do not be mistaken that it is easy to make toddlers learn sharing. It it was actually so easy to teach toddlers how to share then there wouldn't be so many unruly kids around. Here are some simple tips that should be of help.

How To Teach Toddlers To Share?

• To teach to share is a not a very easy concept. Sharing is a quality and it has to instilled rather than taught. But be rest assured that your toddler will grasp is very quickly because they are ten times smarter than us; absolutely nothing escapes their observation.

• Pick up occasions to make a point with your toddler in the right situation. Like many families you too may have a single child so the need for sharing never props up in your toddlers day to day life. This is the main reason for a single child becoming uncompromising. So when your friends come over with their children you have to teach your toddler to share.

• If you want to teach sharing then you have to do it even when there is no occasion for it. For example, if you buy a bar of chocolate your for toddler and then ask him or her to give you and your whoever else is is present in your family a small bite from it.

• The child may not agree at once and clutch on to the chocolate. He or she will say in their baby tongue that 'its mine' and everybody laughs. If you are serious teaching your children to share then cannot indulge in this laughter.

• You have to persevere in order to teach toddler to share. When he or she gets possessive about a thing or object you have to gently explain that when you share the joy of having something increases.

• You can promise rewards in order to teach toddler how to share. If can tell them that if you share your toys or a food you really like with your brother or sister then god will count you as a good kid and if you don't then you will be punished in some way. May be your favourite toy will break.

• Stories, fairy tales and folktales really work when it comes teaching toddlers anything at all. You could tell them the story of the good little pig who always shared and the mean little pig who never gave anything to his friends to them to instill the virtue in them

These parenting tips tell you how to teach your toddler sharing and caring.