Does that sound familiar to you?
With Nathan entering two and now at two years 5 months, we have been doing our best to inculcate good values and of course, many times to model the way. However, at this age when their cognitive development is very "caveman" and it is mainly about themselves and their needs and wants, it is not very easy. The power struggles that come with it haven't been too pleasant either.
So today, we decided to use his favourite snack "honey stars" as a teaching tool for Sharing. :)
First we speak with Nathan about honey stars being his favourite food and he feels happy when he eats them. And it is good if other people can be happy too. So we can give them honey stars and let them feel the same "happy" that Nathan feels. :)
We took out some small zip lock bags and some animal puffy stickers from Daiso. We let Nathan choose a sticker for each of his cousins.
He chose an alligator for kor Kor ah rui; a lion for didi yisheng and a cat for Mei Mei Beatrice. Then we guided him to stick them on the zip lock bags.
Then we let Nathan fill these zip lock bags with his box of honey stars!
Hahaha phoebe also wanted to join in!
Here are the end products!
Finally we went to Gardens by the Bay's children playground to meet the other cousins. Nathan then presented each packet to each cousin. (Minus yisheng cos he was asleep)
The concept of sharing is very difficult to grasp for young kids.. It's hard for them to understand why must they share their favourite toy with others esp just because the parents said so.
So we are going to continue to explain, model the way and guide our kids to do so...
Jiayou, everyone!
Till the day we hear "I WANT TO SHARE". :)
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