“Parents often worry when their children don’t share – whether they don’t want to share a parent’s attention with someone else or a toy with another child. But sharing is hard for most children. That doesn’t mean they are selfish. It just means that it takes a long while to be able to share. Why is sharing so hard? For one thing, children don’t understand what sharing means. If you ask them to share something, they think you are taking it away from them. They don’t know they will get it back. They also have trouble thinking about what someone else wants — they can think about only what they want. Sharing will come in time, as children live and grow up with adults who share. Great good can come from sharing. We adults can help children come to know that. We can also help them with times when sharing is hard” (Rodgers, “Sharing”).

Using the paragraph above, write an effective paragraph using the M.E.A.L. strategy; Main Idea, Evidence, analysis, and link.