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A - threw marbles in someone's face who was playing with them. Would you tell them off? Or say nothing at all to your child?
B - was sitting at the dinner table and was crying for food on the guests plate? Would you remove the food from the guests plate and let your child eat it to stop them being upset?
Not sure what's normal as I'm not a parent.
B - was sitting at the dinner table and was crying for food on the guests plate? Would you remove the food from the guests plate and let your child eat it to stop them being upset?
Not sure what's normal as I'm not a parent.
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I'm not a parent, so also fascinated.
Where do we get our sense of disgust about food that has been on someone else's plate?
The fork/spoon goes into their mouth and back down to the plate so the remaining food may have saliva traces on it.
If the guest was an adult, they'd be terribly offended by my expressing a desire that my child is not put in contact with their 'germs' (the child won't understand the fuss, until repetition leads to questioning). Even at school I offended someone by wiping the top of a pop bottle which had visited five mouths, before taking my turn. I genuinely didn't think what message that puts out.
If the house guest was another child, of similar age then they'd also not understand warnings about hygeine and likely not care about my kid pilfering from their plate.
But… I cannot administer corrective instruction until after the offence has played out.
For the marbles, I might try reminding my kid of the last time they hurt a knee or an elbow (bones close to the skin) and ask them to say how tgat felt, then explain how that is how marbles on the forehead feel to their playpal.
Again, I do not know at what age children develop empathy.
Where do we get our sense of disgust about food that has been on someone else's plate?
The fork/spoon goes into their mouth and back down to the plate so the remaining food may have saliva traces on it.
If the guest was an adult, they'd be terribly offended by my expressing a desire that my child is not put in contact with their 'germs' (the child won't understand the fuss, until repetition leads to questioning). Even at school I offended someone by wiping the top of a pop bottle which had visited five mouths, before taking my turn. I genuinely didn't think what message that puts out.
If the house guest was another child, of similar age then they'd also not understand warnings about hygeine and likely not care about my kid pilfering from their plate.
But… I cannot administer corrective instruction until after the offence has played out.
For the marbles, I might try reminding my kid of the last time they hurt a knee or an elbow (bones close to the skin) and ask them to say how tgat felt, then explain how that is how marbles on the forehead feel to their playpal.
Again, I do not know at what age children develop empathy.
Really silly to say but I was extremely hungry. We was all eating the same thing but she wanted my vegetables as well as hers so my veg was taken off my plate and she had all hers and mines. It wouldn't have bothered me if I wasn't so hungry but at the same time I did wonder if this kind of thing was normal. It's more being a guest in a strange house too and I was more worried about what repercussions this would have on the child to grow up thinking she could have everything she wanted even if it didn't belong to her. A lot of my UK friends have children and they don't ever do this. This child is never disciplined or told no. If she throws a temper or screams she will get it anyways. So this child never learns no. I'm not an expert however as I am not a parent but I was never brought up this way and find this may not be best to teach your child. Children learn fundamental things from a young age and I wasn't sure if this is maybe just a terrible 3's typical behaviour. As I say I'm a bit ignorant to all this as I'm not a parent.
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