Dominant or rather reserved: children behave in this way sometimes, sometimes so. But what to do if the offspring always wants to take control?
Fürth (dpa / tmn) - If you watch your children playing, you can often perform virtuoso role changes. Depending on the situation and personality, the little ones are sometimes a dominant, then a compliant play partner.
Some tend to dominate the game over long distances and give directions to others. A reason for parents to intervene? "Not immediately, no," says Ulric Ritzer-Sachs. He is a pedagogue at the online counseling service of the Federal Conference on Educational Counseling.
Instead of interfering immediately, parents are better to hold back. Before you address your child at a later point in time and perhaps criticize it, it is worth asking the following questions: Does my child always give the leader, or was it just a snapshot? Are the other children clearly suffering from this?
It is also important to distinguish whether your child may just like to set the tone or whether it does so in an aggressive way. In this case, parents can of course intervene earlier.
Basically, however, you can be sure that children tend to get along well from preschool age. And whoever takes over the role of determiner may then also hear from the others: "We won't play with you anymore."