Loving this perspective on sharing and the reframe - we aren’t done with the toy yet. Also the difference between the desire to share something with another versus being forced.
Totally agree that we often expect more of kids, especially toddlers, than we do of ourselves and other adults. We expect children to be more emotionally and socially advanced than they are psychologically and developmentally capable of being, and then we blame them (and often, feel like we are bad parents) when they can't perform something they are not yet capable of performing. Thanks for the post!
Yes, 100% this. Our expectations for these tiny humans are so high. I’m grappling with that a lot in some other areas of parenthood, and tend to cycle between lots of different emotions.
Loving this perspective on sharing and the reframe - we aren’t done with the toy yet. Also the difference between the desire to share something with another versus being forced.
Totally agree that we often expect more of kids, especially toddlers, than we do of ourselves and other adults. We expect children to be more emotionally and socially advanced than they are psychologically and developmentally capable of being, and then we blame them (and often, feel like we are bad parents) when they can't perform something they are not yet capable of performing. Thanks for the post!
Yes, 100% this. Our expectations for these tiny humans are so high. I’m grappling with that a lot in some other areas of parenthood, and tend to cycle between lots of different emotions.