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[quote=Anonymous]My 3 yo DS is social and loves to make new friends. I’ve noticed that his way of making friends is to give them his toys. So for example yesterday we were at the airport waiting for our bags. There was another little boy a little older than him, and he really wanted to play with him. So he asked me to fish out his favorite truck from my purse. I gave him the truck, and he immediately gave the truck to the little boy. Then he asked for a less favorite truck and he took that for himself and they began to play, and they had a grand time.  This type of behavior repeats itself over and over again. Basically he relies on giving a toy to someone as a way to make a friend. I was just wondering if this is normal behavior for that age or if it is something that I should not encourage.   I guess the best way to describe it is that he kind of uses the toy as a crutch for making the friendship and  also I don’t want him to feel like he has to give something to someone in order to make a friend. [/quote]

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