Her approach would work fine with my older kids, but I don’t see it working very well with the under-five set in a home setting (does make more sense for day care.) We use timers sometimes for that type of situation.

That’s a good point. My 2 big kids actually each have a couple “special” toys that everyone knows they don’t have to share, but the vast majority of our toys I expect them to share reasonably. The author’s strategy is to have children know that they can have as long a turn as they want up to the entire day. The next morning the child that was waiting will get the first turn. I can see this potentially working as a general policy at a day care center where kids are only there for a few hours and maybe it would work with older kids in one household. I just can’t see that working for my family when all my kids are so young. The youngest ones don’t fully understand, “You can have your turn tomorrow” (and if they did it would probably make them even more upset). We have a timer that if worst comes to worst, I set it for a few minutes and they know to pass the object of contention over when it beeps.