Tuesday, March 24, 2009
What's mine is yours
Poor Cassia. Have you ever tried to teach a toddler the concept of mine and yours, me and you? I must say the thought had occurred to me as I watched my nieces grow up that it must be a difficult one, but they appear to have caught onto the idea OK. But Cassia's having trouble at the moment. Anything I sit on, hold, touch or otherwise engage with is "mine". As in, she says "mine chair." And yesterday we had an unfortunate nappy-changing accident in which I scratched her on the leg and she went around saying "cetchoo, cetchoo" ("I scratched you") while pointing to her injury. How exactly am I supposed to deal with this one? I think it's probably best to just leave it and she'll get the hang of it by osmosis eventually.
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I predict that by the time you return to Japan from Australia she'll have it well and truly worked out. Some "competition" with her cousins is sure to clarify the concepts of "mine" and "yours" for her!
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