Hello Fellow Bloggers. As a mom that wishes she had all the answers, but every day realizes that she doesn't-- I would propose a 'mommy question for the week'.
And here it is:
What do you do if there is a neighborhood kid that wants to play with your kid, but your kid does not want to play with him? Do you force him to play with that kid?
I am in the process of teaching Matthew about compassion and kindness, and at times he will play with this kid, but this kid is younger, and Matthew has other boys his age that he would like to play with majority of the time in the neighborhood.
Help!!
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This happens a lot around here. I often leave the choice up to them. But I do require that they be respectful of the other child. We've talked about how there is a right and a wrong way to decline an invitation.
We talk a lot about putting ourselves in another person's shoes. Thinking about how they would like to be treated in this situation.
Hmmm. That's a hard one. Since Shiloh is only two, I don't have many suggestions. I'll be interested to see what advice you get from other moms. Maybe I can file it away to use later.
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Hey! I enjoyed hanging with you and Brandy this evening. That was nice. Well, we had some neighbors that were difficult and basically, if my kids were outside and the neighbors wanted to play with our kids I'd tell our kids that either they could play outside with whomever happened to be out there or if my kids didn't want to play with the other kids I'd tell the other kids that my kids were taking a break inside. So, basically, they could play inside without other kids or they could play outside, but had to play with whoever showed up. It might not be the best way to handle things, but it worked for us.
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I wish I had an answer for this one! I know I have often invited the neighbor children to come and play under very strict (but nice) guidelines that it's only for a 1/2 hour. So they play, I usually feed them all a snack, and home they go. My kids can tolerate a 1/2 hour of playing with someone that's not too bad but not their first choice.
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