Children have to learn to be able to wait. And you should definitely, because studies show that patient children are successful children.
The smaller a child, the more impatient it reacts. Everything always has to go very quickly and pass immediately. Otherwise, parents risk shouting and tears. A child has to learn patience first. Even with young children you can work on the patience and create the best prerequisites for later life.
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Children are so impatient mainly because they are used to knowing their needs immediately. Because as little babies, parents react immediately to them if they cry, for example, because hunger or abdominal pain plagues them. This is also quite the case and should not encourage anyone now not to react to the cry of his baby. The little ones simply cannot help themselves and are dependent on their parents.
At around two to three years, children come to the age when they can understand that they have to wait. Now is the time to work on your patience and to promote it.
Why is patience important for children?
Patience is a very positive quality. If you can wait a bit with satisfying your own needs, you make it easier, but also your fellow human beings. You are stressing your life, so to speak.
And something else is patient. It laid the foundation for school and professional success. OneStudyThe scientist Brian Cadena and Benjamin Keys showed, for example, that there is a connection between patience and education. In their investigation, more patient subjects had better school qualifications on average.
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Also New ZealandLong -term examinationsreinforce these results. They showed that subjects were patient, but less intelligent than others, were just as successful or more successful than study participants who were intelligent but impatient.
Matthias Sutter, professor of behavioral economy at the Universities of Innsbruck and Cologne and director at the Max Planck Institute Bonn expresses in an interview withwireltern.chTo have been accepted so far, intelligence and origin of a person would decide on school and life success. However, these investigations would show that patience is also an essential factor.
Practice and train patience with children
Children live in the here and now and are very strong. They could be up to a certain age, because the parents did everything they could to that the child lacks nothing. But at some point every child has to learn that not everything runs immediately after his will.
This also means that the child has to learn that it does not get the attention of mom and dad 24/7. A child can also unsettle this. Because attention and thus confirmation of the parents have so far reinforced it in its self -esteem.
So that this does not happen, the parents have to be patient with the child and not to overwhelm it. And of course parents should go ahead with a good example. Anyone who has from one appointment to the next daily conveys little patience. It is better if parents can pause and, for example, do not react to the ranging smartphone.
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How do you bring patience to children?
Patience should be learned slowly and gradually. The throw into the cold water would only irritate a child. It is particularly important for parents to be consistent and reliable in the whole thing. For example, if you meet an agreement with the child, for example, "we can read a book in five minutes", then you should also implement it after this time. Patience has to be particularly worthwhile for children at the beginning!
The younger a child is, the smaller they should be patient samples. And it is best to 'visualize' the time that the child should wait. Because children still have no sense of time or an idea of what are five or ten minutes. A sand or egg watch can help to make waiting time visible for the beginning.
You can also learn patience when playing. For example, you always have to wait for a board game until you are back with the dice. Or you have to wait until the game finally produces a winner. With this, patience can also train the endurance of a child, stay tuned and not give up.
Strategies for the waiting time are also very important when learning patience. For example, if you stand at the cash register in the supermarket, you can bridge the time until you are finally tuned with a game like 'I see what you don't see'. After paying, there is also a little something for the child, Ü-egg or a pretzel, the waiting and thus the patience, even really worth it.
Avoid disappointment
Children have to learn that it is worth being patient and waiting for something. That may be a promised ice or new toy at the beginning. Later, however, it will enable the child to reward themselves with good grades. Exactly because it was patient and persistent when learning.
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In order for a child to get to this point to link his patience with something positive, you should never break agreements made. On the one hand, as parents, you make yourself so unbelievable and risked to lose your child's trust. On the other hand, children take the sense of achievement.
