My mom taught aurora the command release while we were visiting. So getting her to release a toy no longer turns into a tug of war game. She is not allowed to play tag with her stuff animals. She wants to play tug with them, but I will refuse to play it with her. If she refuses to release, I refuse to keep trying. She only can play tug with her ropes. When we play with the ropes I tell her we are playing tug. She knows other toys by name, so I hope she will learn to get the rope when I say tug. I can tell her go get your horsie and she will bring it to me, even if its downstairs and I am upstairs, same for her monkeys.
Only reason I don't want her using her stuff animals is because of the fact she is already really rough on them how it is. Seems like I am always throwing away stuff animals. Now she is destroying the cat's plastic balls with bells in them. She brings it by my feet when she is done, like she is proud.