Positive Parenting Tips: Teaching Kids about Patience and Sharing

If you’re looking for some positive positive-parenting-tips tips, try teaching your kids about patience and sharing.

Patience and sharing are two wonderful skills which I believe each parent wants their kids to have.
However at what age do they really kick in? Not in the first 4 years of life, according to our experience with the kids. But then again, looking at how many adults around me still seem to struggle with the concept of patience and/or sharing, I shouldn’t have too high expectations for my kids …These are our positive positive-parenting-tips tips for raising young children.

You might have read  the story about the mothers day present of my daughter. That’s the kind of situations where lack of patience actually leads to funny situations.

Victoria came home from school on Friday with a present which was supposed to be given to mommy on Sunday. We spent about an hour that evening having fun with Victoria repeating over and over again the following sequence: hiding the present, asking us if we want to see it, taking it back again, asking mommy if she wants to open it, telling her with a big smile on her face that she can not open it yet to then hide it once again.

As you could read, the present didn’t make it till actual mothers’ day on Sunday 🙂

However it is more likely for the lack of patience and sharing to end up like this, and if that is the case the below positive positive-parenting-tips tips might came in handy:

The above series of pictures covers a crying session of Lukas when he couldn’t get the brush Victoria was playing with outside on our courtyard. Drama! Playing together with it was obviously out of the question … and so was waiting for his turn.

How do you deal with these kinds of situations? Over time we developed a couple of positive positive-parenting-tips tips and tricks depending on the type of problem at hand:

• Counting as a way to have them be patient to wait for their turn
• Storytelling for when you want them to go along with you on something
• Duplicating the so-wanted-toy so they both get to play with it in the same time
• Saying ‘yes, but later’ rather than saying ‘no’
• Get them involved in what you are doing if you are not yet ready to give them what they want

What we want to get to is kids playing nice together like Victoria and Elena do here:

We’ll be covering each of these positive positive-parenting-tips  tips and tricks in more detail with some examples, and cute pictures, later on in separate posts.

You have some positive positive-parenting-tips tips and suggestions of your own? Share them with us by commenting below.