Two-year-old Péťa walks in large circles around the sandpit. With its wary movements, it strikingly resembles a small beast, but instead of prey it holds a beloved plastic truck in tiny hands.
Petřík is unhappy! He would like to play with the car in the sandpit, but he is afraid that other children from the sandpit would want his love toy again. He remembers how it turned out last time! A boy took his car from the "garage", and when Péťa cried and wanted him back because he was afraid the boy would take him home, his mother said to him: "But Petrík, don't be greedy and lend the boy a nice car for a while! You didn't even play with him. ”But he did!
Behavior and relationshipsAfter all, the truck was standing in the parking lot, waiting for Petr to make the road for him! Everything went wrong. The stranger suddenly had Peter's car and had a lot of fun, and the boy's mother forced Petya's ugly bucket and rakes he didn't want at all, and with a smile she claimed it was worth renting a car. Wouldn't that upset you ?!
We don't want to raise greed
Of course, we don't want to encourage you to raise a little selfish person from your offspring, an egoistic greedy man, and later even goofy - not at all! It is only sometimes useful to realize that children do not perceive the world as we adults do and that renting toys can be a big problem for them.
They do not look to the future, they live in the present, the current moment and the game in which they are just immersed. Moreover, the time when children really start playing with friends, cooperating, helping each other, consciously borrowing things, exchanging them, simply following the common goal of the game, has its origins around the age of three.
Younger children usually do not understand the whole process of lending and returning things and react to such "transactions" in proportion to their nature. The noisier and more stubborn ones are, of course, often considered and called "greedy".
Even at a time when the child already understands the principle of lending things, it is, of course, possible to meet individuals with a penchant for stubborn "greed", what reasons may lead to this? And beware, it doesn't have to be negative at all!
So how do children learn to divide completely naturally, not greedy, but on the contrary, responsive to the needs of others? First you have to be yourself - and this is often the most difficult.
Be sure to try to empathize with the child's situation as well - how would you behave at the moment if someone wanted to lend the thing to you? If you are clear, you can draw your help and advice from this knowledge.
The child can also learn "diplomacy"; for example, to offer a friend another loan or he can organize some advantageous exchange. Some good introverted children ("eternal goodies") will even benefit from learning to say "no" and simply not lending things.
If you manage to lead children sensitively to learn to resolve small conflicts without the use of aggression and with a certain dose of diplomacy themselves without your assistance, you are well on your way to raising a pleasant person - a friend, partner, co-worker, etc.
Do you know how you would behave at the moment?
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