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Articles: My Experience | To share or not to share?
- Mrs. malathi kona
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A few days ago, I had another bad experience with this boy and his mother. This kid was about 4 years old and was really rude and obnoxious. To start with, he came to the park with absolutely no toys of his own. He then zeroed in on hima as a soft target and started grabbing her toys without so much as a please or a thank you. I looked towards his mother in the hope that she would control her offspring but it was not to be. She made a half-hearted attempt by occasionally saying things like, “Don’t take all the baby’s toys. Play with her.” But considering that these words were said in an indulgent and half-laughing tone, they had little effect on the kid, who just shook his head and carried on behaving badly. When I stepped in to at least get back the one spade that hima was playing with, the kid had a complete meltdown and then tried to snatch it back. Finally, I just picked up hima and took her to another part of the park and let this completely misbehaved boy have his way with the toys (which included making a really messy slurry of mud mixed with his drinking water in the bucket). After all, if his own mother won’t discipline him, who am I to try?
My last crib is against mothers who don’t encourage their kids to share. Sometimes, hima will get interested in some other kid’s spade or bucket. Most kids don’t have a problem if she picks up something that they are not playing with at that point of time, and even if they do, they are clearly told by their moms to share. But sometimes there are kids who will have a meltdown if hima comes within a foot of their toys and their moms won’t blink an eyelid. And then last week, there was this mother who snatched up a toy before hima could pick it up even though her daughter hasn’t protested.
I cannot for the life of me understand why parents do this. Are they really that paranoid about the transfer of germs or do they value the cheap, plastic toys more than helping their kids to grow up to be kind and generous people?
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