Just interested on peoples thoughts on this. My DS is 2 1/2 I am a teacher and regularly teach him to share, not get too bothered over other kids playing with toys he wants etc. Today we went to a soft play and there was child I would say around 4 playing near my son. He was playing with a blue teddy bear on his own. This girl was collecting the other bears (about 6-8) in a basket. She took the blue one from my son and put it in her basket. He immediately started to cry and started saying ‘my bear please’ I went over to console him and he was saying he wanted the bear. I told him to let her have a turn and then ask for it back. After a couple of minutes I encouraged him to go up to her and say my turn please and take the bear ( he is used to this) he went over and did this but the girl refused, he then grabbed the bear and this resulted in a tugging between them, he lost as of course she is bigger. He then came back to me and asked me to ‘help’ him. I went up the girl and explained about sharing briefly and asked if we could have the bear back. She said no…so….i took it! This resulted in her crying but I just walked off. I couldn’t even work out who her parents were to say anything to them. This was really out of character for me but I did feel that as she had all the other bears and it was taken from my son it was the right thing to do. When I put my son to bed tonight he recounted what had happened today and ended by saying ‘mommy helped me’. It does make me think about if I hadn’t had got the bear how he would have processed it. I know I am probably massively over thinking this but making another child cry did not make me feel good and it felt petulant but I also wanted to back up my kid. Interested to know thoughts.