We would have shouting or p'shing and snatching. If he wanted something, he was going to have it. If we were playing a game, he would call out and want to have the next go. But since going on the PALS programme, four-year- old Charles has begun to make friends and has learned to share, take turns and ask for help.
We did cooking the other day and I had five to six children and two mixing bowls. From the start they knew they would have to take turns.
Charles had the first turn at stirring and without me saying anything more, he had a stir and said, RIt's your turn now JacobS, and passed the bowl over. I stood there amazed and delighted. Before, I would have had to tell him to pass on the bowl and even then he might have struggled to cling on to the bowl or grabbed it back.
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