Encourage Toy Sharing During Playdates

Despite having a best friend to come over and play, your preschooler may balk at letting little Johnny play with his favorite fire truck. Or anything else for that matter. Here are some tips for encouraging toy sharing from Surfnetparents.com:

Prepare some extra activities

While this is a good idea to do anyway, they can come in extremely handy when children begin to fight over toys. It’s always nice to have a change of pace for a while so that’s why extra activities work great. Things like reading books together, playing with play dough or some type of kinesthetic activity or water painting, and one of the best activities for young children is sand and water. Kids will come up with a million things to do with sand and water, or even just water. It doesn’t matter what you decide to prepare, just as long as you have some extra fall back activities to change things up a little.