How do you teach your children to share?
Similar to Sue Adams, when something involves sharing one item, particularly food or something that needs to be split in half, I allow one child to split the item and the other child to choose which half they want. You have never seen such perfectly equal halves in all of your life
As for sharing other things, this is quite difficult. i have used consequences for not sharing, like having something taken away. I've taken the item away from all of the children and given the item a "time out". But, as the children have gotten older, I have made statements like, "I'm not going to make you share this item, but when you want to borrow something, I will not make your sister/brother share either". This also works at times, particularly when I mention specific items that they like to borrow from each other.
I guess it really depends on the situation.
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