At age 2 your toddler’s whole world revolves around what is meaningful to her. She has not made the connection between sharing for a short time and giving something away forever. She will not understand this until she is older.
          
           Your toddler is constantly learning and figuring out how things work. “Does the wheel on this car turn the same on every surface?” “Do the blocks stack this way or that way?” She will repeat her play over and over to learn all of these details. When she is asked to give her toy to another child, erupted.
                   
Sharing is Caring
Sharing is Caring
 
           Your 2-year-old can be happy playing beside other children (called parallel play). Children this age are curious about what other people are doing, even if they don’t yet have the social skills to play together.
  
 Set the Stage
Ø    You and other caregivers can start teaching the concept of   sharing gradually. Being to use the words “sharing” and   “taking turns” when you see it happen. Praise her for it.   But don’t expect to see it very often! Your child may not   share well until she is 3 to 4.
Ø    Label your own actions too. If you hand your pen to   another adult you can say, “I’m sharing my pen.”   Toddlers  are excellent observers; your child will watch   and learn to associate the word “sharing” with smiles and   pleasant words. This will make it less scary when you ask   her to share.
Ø     Don’t force sharing. When that happens, your toddler         learns to associate sharing with hurt feelings.
Ø    If your child was a few favorite objects that cause   problems when friends come to play, try putting those   intis another room. Remind her that she does not need to   share all of her favorite toys, but the toys that are us   during the play date are for all the children to use. This   will reassure her that she controls over the world.

Taking Turns
Ø   Learning to take turns is hard for you toddler too. She is  asked to give up something she has AND to wait for it to  come back her -not an easy job!
Ø   Your toddler does not yet have the words to negotiate how   long a turn will last or who gets to go first. This adds to   her  frustration.
Ø    Instead of trying to get toddlers to take turns, have enough  toys for everyone or offer a material that many children can use the same time, like sand or play dough. You can also encourage trading toys for a brief time instead of having each child take a turn with her same toy.
Tips for teaching sharing
Some ideas when you can point out sharing to your toddler.
·       When you roll a ball to your toddler and ask for its return, you are sharing the ball.
·       When two toddlers are each using a swing in the swing set, they are sharing the swing set.
·       When you are snuggled on the couch with your toddler, you are sharing couch.