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Having troubles with your kids when it comes to their play? You might need a little help to avoid them from having toy fights. As parents or guardians of your kids, you need to teach them how to share so they won’t have any fights.
Here are some of the few guidelines you can do to avoid toy fights:
1. Set rules like, “No one can play with the doll house unless you learn how to share” or “If you bring your toy car in Grandma’s house, make sure you are ready to share it with others. If you are not willing to share it to them, forget to bring it.”
When you are setting rules to your kids, it must be clearly stated and implemented fairly. If your rules once bent, these will no longer easy for kids to follow for they will not take it seriously. It must be consistent.
2. Be a peacemaker. When your kids are having a fight, do not just pin the blame on one child. Know what exactly happened and what it caused them to fight. Ask each one of them and help them reach an agreement. If they are being stubborn of resolving the fight, both get a time-out.
3. Talk to your kids and let them express how they feel. Let your kids express how they feel about the situation. This will help them realize that the fight maybe more about their inability to express their needs.
4. Parents are the best leaders that kids naturally follow. Whatever kids see from their parents, they easily adapt it. Children learn primarily from home. So therefore, you need to be a role model in their eyes so you can avoid reinforcing them with a bad behavior. Do not punish an aggressive child by being aggressive in return.
5. Encourage your kids to play games that promote sharing. Games like throwing and catching balls will allow your kids to enjoy the fun in giving. When a child sees that his/her playmate is enjoying in receiving the ball from her/him, he/she actually feels good in making his/her playmate happy. Doing this game will make the both of them feel happy of playing together.
Teaching children how to share and to play fair is very important as they grow up. When they realize that it is good to share and think that no one is taking anything away from them, the fights will stop and they will enjoy having fun together peacefully. The willingness of a child to socialize with other kids in a friendly way during his/her early age will be manifested on how they can relate to other people as they grow.
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