Sharing Can be Hard, but Good Can Come from It
Thoughts for the Week:
Sharing isn't easy for children,
and learning to share is a long process. Especially in a child-care setting, it
can be hard for children to understand what's mine, yours, and ours. Sharing
grows little by little, as children develop the ability to see things from
another person's point of view and to trust that what they share will be given
back.
-- Fred Rogers
Summary of the Week:
During this
week, Mister Rogers helps children appreciate the pleasures sharing can bring,
as well as deal with the times that make sharing hard. Various special guests
share things that they have learned or enjoy doing including, Bill Nye, the
Science Guy, sculptors who use paper or found objects, and a teenager with
disabilities who is a Paralympic swimmer.
The story in
the Neighborhood of Make-Believe gives children a way to understand one of the
most common problems of sharing when Lady Elaine Fairchilde learns that people
can't just take something that belongs to others. They need to ask first.
