You don’t need a plan or a script tonight, just a few honest sentences you can say out loud, right when it counts.
“It's hard to hand something over when you love playing with it.”
“Your turn is coming, and I'll help you wait for it.”
“We can play together instead of taking turns apart.”
Naming how hard sharing feels, before asking for it, makes a child more willing to try.
In their story, a character feels exactly how hard it is to hand something over, and only later discovers how much better it feels to play it together.
There's no lecture at the end, just a quiet warmth that comes from having shared something and still having fun.
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