No, forced “sharing” is not sharing at all; it’s a perversion of the child’s inborn drive to self-construct an individual human being capable of spontaneous, authentic sharing. Children learn to share when they have grown old enough, when they have accomplished their developmental task of individual self-construction if they are living in a family and community that models sharing and holds it as a high value, that refuses to impose on children values inappropriate to their developmental age.
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