-=-The thing that seemed to make the biggest change was giving her a special set for her own to use as she wishes. I had just that set- it was my grandpa's, the pieces are beautifully realistic, molded plastic. She knows how I treasure it and giving her that seemed to melt away the jealousy surrounding chess for her.-=-
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She's four years old.? She can't "know" how you treasure a chess set that was your grandpa's.??
If you can't remember being that young, and if you haven't been around a lot of kids that age lately, they can be casually destructive because they were pretty much born yesterday.? They have no sense of nostalgia yet, or of antiques, nor of how old grandparents are, or how difficult it can be to obtain another one of something that's 50 or 80 years old.? :-)? Even if you could, it wouldn't be the original.
If you DO treasure that chess set, put it up yourself every time.? Put it up high.? :-)? ?Take care of it for her, so that she's not set up to fail.??
Be her partner. :-)
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Sandra
