Sharing? What’s that all about? More like mine, mine, mine, mine, mine

Mine. Very much the word of (every) day in Baby B’s life moment. I understand that children have problems grasping the concept of sharing, and I know that it is common for 2 year olds to not want to share, but this is a joke.

Everything is ‘mine’.

Including:

• Things that he has literally just laid eyes on, such as whole toy shops;
• Things that are nailed to the ground like climbing frames in the park;
• Things that move and breathe such as pigs at the zoo;
• Things that belong to other children such as bicycles and scooters;
• Everything that can be eaten! (gets that from his mother)
• Oh and every toy,on every advert, ever. Including those Alli Pally pink boots (you the ones, annoying music) and all makeup.

We went to visit some friends last week who have a one year old. This is a good age for B as the other child can’t quite walk yet, but does have lots of toys. Being unable to walk, the younger boy was therefore not a direct threat to the toys, which B dived happily into playing with. All is well until the lovely little lad crawls over to see what B is going doing with HIS walker. Literally as soon as his finger made contact with the walker B started, ‘Mine, mine, mine’. Followed by the tears and an overall, completely unnecessary breakdown. This was repeated about 10 times throughout the course of the afternoon.

This happens a lot.

Both Daddy A and I spend a lot of time talking to B about the importance of sharing toys with other children and whilst B says sorry, listens and repeats ‘It’s nice to share’. He does not act on it.

B is also very good at faking his love of sharing. He will smile sweetly & whilst under duress hand over a toy to another child. To only then, as soon as the hand over has been made, burst into tears and attempt to snatch it back from the other child.

Cars are his, whole houses, fun zones, hell he even laid claim to Gatwick airport last week when picking me up. It is impressive as much as it is ambitious

One thing’s for sure, whilst it is often funny and at times endearing, it is now wearing a little thin.

Is there anything we can do to help him with his ‘mine’ sharing issues? He is such a lovely boy but sadly doesn’t always come across that lovely when he is pushing other children away from their own toys in their own homes!!

Face of an angel (yeah right!)

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