Not yet ready for sharing

Since it was raining last days, I invited some mums from asilo hoping that Gaia will be a perfect host. Not this time. Even if she knows and likes those kids a lot, she didn't want to share her toys and cried, shouted and even hit her friends. 
I really understand that they are not yet ready to share and feel very anxious when somebody invades their safety zone (who helps me understand that please find below). I am not pushing an idea of sharing as I consider her to be too little to fully understand.
But still. My patience has limits. All in all, it was a very tiring playdate. 

A moment of relative peace

 

Don't touch my precious toys!

And why I understand this unreadiness from my guru Heidi Murkoff: 

A toddler who won't share? How…absolutely normal! All toddlers have a tough time with this concept, quite simply because they haven't yet achieved the developmental ability to share. Toddlers consider pretty much everything to be theirs (and "mine" is indeed their favorite word!). It's not ingrained selfishness that's behind it; your tot has to learn possessiveness to understand the idea of ownership, which will eventually lead to an understanding of sharing. The key word, of course, is "eventually." For now, expect some battles over lending a favorite toy (in other words: any toy) or giving back the things that he's borrowed.