During our recent playgroup at my house Dave and I both noticed that Carly was a little pushy and snatchy. (Take in mind she was the oldest and everyone was playing with her toys.) Now this led to Dave asking a friend of ours who is a preschool teacher if this was a sign of her up and coming attitude, which he was reassured it was not. However, it led me to want to get her with older kids to push and snatch back. Which led us to today's playdate at the train table of BN.
Carly is pulling up and cruising around furniture really well, so I figured a train table would be no problem for her to cruise. This was in fact the case and within 2 minutes of cruising the train table she snatched a Thomas train right out of a toddler's hand. He wanted no part of it, snatched it back and turned away. His mom immediately started to reprimand him for not sharing with the baby (he did have about 1/2 of the table's train cars at this point), and I immediately began the lesson about not snatching to Carly.
Overall we had a fabulous time playing at the train table. The toddlers learned to push their trains past her quickly and then walk around her. If they used enough force and ran quickly enough, they could get back to their train without her getting her hands on all of it. They may have lost one car, so then they just took the one she originally had and added it to their collection. I think we will continue to play with the big kids so Carly will learn lessons about sharing and playing nicely with others quicker.
Aren't trains and train tables fascinating. Love, Aunt Bubble
ReplyDeleteThis is why you see duplicates of the same toy in a toddler classroom. It's hard to share. I like that Carly can focus her attention and gets really involved in her play. Some children need help with this as old as 4 years.
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PS Train tables are awesome. I like to buy wooden trains and have the children decorate. The girls like to paint them pink and add plastic jewels :) The boys like to paint blue like Thomas. I like yellow.