Your child/niece/nephew doesn't want to share his/her toys on a playdate. How would you address the situation ?
Sharing is very important as part of humanity. We need to teach children to learn to share stuff even if they own them. Afterall, you bought those toys for them and they should learn to share with their friends.
I was once at a kid's birthday party with my siblings when the celebrant refused sharing her toys with her friends who had even brought some of the gifts to her.
I watched as the kids begged her to share with them and she vehemently turned them down. Her dad came through and said to her:
"Sweetheart, it is good to share your toys with your friends to play, when you go to their houses, you can as well play with their toys." She refused and said she wasn't sharing.
Disappointed Dad says, "I will give you some sweets if you share those toys with your friends" to which she replied, "I don't want no sweets".
Frustrated now, he says "I won't buy you any more toys if you don't share your toys with your friends" and firmly, she replied, "Mom will buy me more toys" with her tongue out.
At this point, he must have been embarrassed and he just snatched a toy or two from her and handed it over to her friends. This of course made her cry.
There are different ways of addressing this situation whereby your child,nephew or niece doesn't want to share toys with his/her friends.
The first can be what I call the Moral way, the first thing the Dad did, trying to tell her it's a good thing to share with friends.
Second phase is the persuasion phase, you can get most kids at the persuasion stage. You promise them something in return, they do what you tell them to.
The third phase is the threatening part which to me isn't really nice as it sends shivers to the kid. Threatening not to do something for him/her if they fail to listen sometimes work and sometimes, don't.
The fourth phase which I actually prefer is the attention phase. At this point, all attention is placed on the kid, but what if the Dad decides to go play with the other kids and leave his stubborn kid to enjoy all her toys to herself? She will definitely feel remorse and would bring the toys herself to where the attention shifted towards.