http://www.cleverparents.com/2007/05/21/vincent/ The website for smart successful parents. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:40:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.cleverparents.com/2007/05/21/vincent/comment-page-1/#comment-27529 Alex's Closet Sat, 26 May 2007 14:33:17 +0000 http://www.cleverparents.com/2007/05/21/vincent/#comment-27529 I was recently reading one of the questions from a mom about her 3 year old not wanting to share. I have thought about this alot and I have come from a big family 5 girls and 1 boy of whom I am the youngest, we were in fact taught to share and we see so many moms telling their children the same thing, what struck me as an adult is we "as parents" are bad examples of sharing we do not really share anything. No one can just come over and pick up my SUV and take it for a ride or go through my closet and pick and choose as well as if someone took our black berry or any device like that we would go crazy as well. So I decided to try to share in front of my son and tell him when I was doing it... But I do believe that there is a limit if something is new and special and the child does not want to share it then I think they should be respected also in that case I always tell him if you don't want to share we will have to put it away. Hope this helped a little I was recently reading one of the questions from a mom about her 3 year old not wanting to share. I have thought about this alot and I have come from a big family 5 girls and 1 boy of whom I am the youngest, we were in fact taught to share and we see so many moms telling their children the same thing, what struck me as an adult is we “as parents” are bad examples of sharing we do not really share anything. No one can just come over and pick up my SUV and take it for a ride or go through my closet and pick and choose as well as if someone took our black berry or any device like that we would go crazy as well. So I decided to try to share in front of my son and tell him when I was doing it… But I do believe that there is a limit if something is new and special and the child does not want to share it then I think they should be respected also in that case I always tell him if you don’t want to share we will have to put it away.
Hope this helped a little

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