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Use Your Words

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We don't always succeed in everything we try. Sometimes our determination is enough to make us keep trying, but sometimes we need someone who can encourage us and help us sustain the belief that we can succeed even when we doubt ourselves. We can learn from the strength of the people we trust the most, people who guide us, but do not take over for us. The life-long lesson lies in the willingness to keep on trying.

Language plays a key role in helping children deal with their feelings. Feelings are a part of being human. Of course, talking about feelings can be a challenge for people at any age; even more so for young children who don't use words well, especially when they are upset. Sometimes feelings can feel jumbled inside and are hard to sort out or name. That can be one of the times when children find it most difficult to tell us how they feel. Just like Daniel Tiger in DANIEL TIGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD is still learning to express his feelings through words, young children must learn this skill from the trusted, caring adults in their lives.

In this set of resources, we will focus on how you can help children learn to use words to express how they are feeling so others will understand how they feel and/or what they what.

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We don't always succeed in everything we try. Sometimes our determination is enough to make us keep trying, but sometimes we need someone who can encourage us and help us sustain the belief that we can succeed even when we doubt ourselves.

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The idea of sharing doesn't come freely to young children. It is something they learn with the help and modeling of caring adults and from their own life experiences. In general, toddlers, and often young three-year-olds, believe that the world revolves around only them. Even though preschoolers gradually learn what taking turns means, they aren't always keen about sharing.

If you ask young children to share something, they may think you are taking it away from them. They don't know (and need to learn) that they will get it back. They need time to cognitively understand that when people share, everyone has more to play with, and that there are more things to enjoy while playing. Young children need opportunities to practice seeing situations from another child's point of view.

One way to demonstrate sharing is for young children to see older children or grownups sharing and then imitate that behavior. Children can also learn sharing, and understand that they will get another turn too, from characters in books or with familiar television characters such as Daniel Tiger from DANIEL TIGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD.

The reluctance to share doesn't mean that young children are selfish. On the contrary, they frequently attempt to comfort others they see in distress. Those attempts are often actions that they'd find comforting themselves, so they offer a hug or a toy as a way to comfort another child or adult.

In this set of resources, we will focus on how you can help children work on developing the social skill of sharing.

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Watch the videos about Sharing and think about how you could use them as part of the classroom activities or throughout the year as children face the challenges associated with sharing.

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Use these resources to further explore the topic of Sharing in your classroom.

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The idea of sharing doesn't come freely to young children. It is something they learn with the help and modeling of caring adults and from their own life experiences. In general, toddlers, and often young three-year-olds, believe that the world revolves around only them.

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Kindness is Cooler!

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Teaching students how to be kind and respectful (Best Friends Foundation)