How Tanner Learns to Share

This is how we teach our Tann to share...

Dr. Phil is a huge fan of role-playing. He suggests using puppets to teach children manners. It allows the kids to be in the driver seat & let them be the ones teaching the puppets the right way to do things.

So for Family Home Evening, we did a lesson on sharing. We started with a few visuals of fish and loaves of bread and talked about how Jesus shared the small amount of food He had, and it was multiplied. Then we used the puppets (we have about 6) to practice. Then for closing, we practiced 'sharing verbiage' for Tanner's language development.

I poured out about 10 mini-skittles on the ottoman. Nobody could get one unless he used the verbiage "_______, will you please share a ________ colored skittle with me?" Then the person sharing had to answer with "Sure, I'll share with you" and get them that colored skittle.

I didn't know if it clicked until we were at the park. Tanner had his pile of sand toys, which he treasures. A younger cute little boy took one of his toys, and Tanner reacted. When the sweet other mom said "Tanner, surely you could share one of your toys"...

Tanner passed it over agreeably and happily.

Two points for good playground manners Tanner!