Teaching a child to share

[Sparklesandglitter]

I'm after some advice, my daughter is only young but I have noticed a lot of my friends DC dont want to share toys with my DD which upsets me a bit (she is too little to notice) or they take her toys from her and refuse to share.
My question is, how can I best teach my DD to share when shes a toddler? She is currently in nursery which I'm sure will help but what else can I do?
TIA

I read that sharing is actually a development of brain capability and doesn't really occur much before the age of three. It's synapses growing. That's why toddlers seem so self centred, they are! They can't physically be empathetic or sharing til that happens. So, you can encourage it and exemplar the behaviour but it doesn't happen naturally for longer than you might think. Certainly surprised me anyway.

How old is dd?

It's much easier to introduce the idea of taking turns, rather than sharing. If you think about it, if you share a piece of cake, then you don't get the other half back, whereas taking turns means that you get the object back.

Wow really, 3?! DD is only 1 so is currently happy playing alone so it's an extra bonus when there is another little baby to play with!
That makes sense with taking turns, I will start to encourage that and use that type of language when playing.

Thanks

I agree with the comments on turns and swops, and also just being pragmatic about it - eg making sure tiny children feel things are 'fair' having two versions of things/having the same dinner, drink given at the same time in the same amounts/same container. That really seems to matter to our little boy.

Our local park is full of other kids' toys they've brought along and it helps to bring along our boy's toys as a bartering tool if he tries to take other children's toys - he seems to understand the swopping idea.

I totally agree here. Children go through different stages of development. They go through a no sharing stage, which they will eventually get through. Continue to teach them to share at this point despite their unwillingness to do so. They learn very quick at their toddler.

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