https://www.janetlansbury.com/2017/09/setting-limits-with-your-possessive-toddler/ elevating child care Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:45:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.janetlansbury.com/2017/09/setting-limits-with-your-possessive-toddler/comment-page-1/#comment-129978 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:12:33 +0000 http://www.janetlansbury.com/?p=17892#comment-129978 Thank you for these helpful ideas, Janet. I was hoping this post would help me gain some insight for a similar situation I am having in my classroom with two year olds. My co-teacher and I have been seeing this behavior in a few kids since we reopened after the pandemic. They gather so many toys and keep them all in one area and don’t actually play with them. As soon as they enter the classroom, they find a basket or wagon and fill it with almost everything from the shelves, ignoring the art activities, floor puzzles, etc. that we have set out. The other children find it difficult to play with everything being immediately snatched and “hoarded” in one location. We have been allowing this because it seems like something they need/some developmental phase, like you said. And we want them to feel that they can use the toys at school as they would their own toys at home (it doesn’t seem super similar to the public library scenario), especially considering they likely aren’t having friends over to their houses during a pandemic! Would you still suggest the limits in this situation or kind of letting it play out like we have? We do encourage and help them put these toys away before we move on to something else. I just feel like if it is a need fo let emotions out, maybe we should be putting more limits on the gathering like you suggested. Thank you!

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