Mine not yours!

Kids are possessive… as everyone knows… with everything… and I do mean ‘everything’!

My older 2 are always battling over a toy, or a book, or spoons, or bags, or packaging material… pretty much anything! But lately, they’ve added the baby to the list!

The eldest one really loves to play with the baby… I guess that since he already knows what its like to have a younger sibling, he does not have any jealousy with this new one. The ‘almost 2 year old’ is a bit threatened by the newborn, and usually stays away from him…

So yesterday, the ‘almost 2 year old’ was playing with the newborn and my eldest says to him “Go away, he is MINE! You don’t even like him!”… And so started yet another fight!

I have used the “timeout” method so many times that it really doesn’t even work anymore! Now I just take away the object in question, tell them its “MINE”, and let them cry about it for a while…is that bad parenting?

Everything really is ‘mine’…