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[quote=Anonymous]Also, when I see my DD take something out of another child's hand, I will immediately force her to give it back to the other child and wait her turn. When Amy's DD grabs something from my DD -- which is constantly -- Amy will plead and cajole her DD to give it back, but if her DD chooses not to give it up, she keeps it.

This actually is somewhat like the way our child's preschool teaches sharing.  They do not snatch something away from the snatcher to give back because they believe that's just teaching the snatcher that it's ok to take things out of the hands of others.  There's a blog/video somewhere recently called It's ok not to share which you might want to read to get a better perspective of other's viewpoints. DC's teachers try to coax into giving the object back but if not they then teach ways to do things better the next time and maybe help out with the next thing the snatcher wants to do to help the child use words instead of hands. I had a child what was a snatcher and very possessive of things and then my second has been the easiest going kid around sharing everything without care.  I don't believe I parented them that differently. The possessive child still has some reluctance to share on occasion but is much better and has no discipline issues at school and goes to others houses now for playdates without incident. Children who have a habit that a parent doesn't like tend to wear the parents down. That may be what's happening.  I would just have playdates with this child and another one so that there would be more better behaved kids and this child would be less of an influence on yours.  That and setting house rules that you enforce, not your friend.[/quote]

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