I grew up calm and knew how to wait and seize opportunities thanks to my parents training me in this character from a young age.

GDXH - For a child, waiting patiently or having to restrain oneself is an extremely difficult thing. If this skill is not practiced from a young age, the child will encounter many obstacles in life when growing up.

Patience is considered one of the important virtues and helps people succeed. Therefore, teaching children patience from an early age should be of great concern to parents.

However, teaching children to have this virtue is not easy and requires patience from parents as well as takes a lot of time to achieve good results. But with just the following 8 suggestions, you will notice positive changes in your child's personality and behavior.

1. Teach children to visualize time

Children begin to develop abstract thinking around age 9. Before this age, children have concrete ideas about activities.

This is why children may have difficulty telling the difference between 15 minutes and 45 minutes.

To overcome this difficulty, the simplest way is for parents to teach their children about visualizing time early whenever possible.

Parents should teach their children about visualizing time early whenever possible. Illustration photo

2. Chat

When children are young, they often get angry or irritable when they have to do something that doesn't go their way.

To train children's patience, parents should proactively talk and teach children to understand and adjust their attitudes.

From there, children will become gentle and practice patience with whatever happens.

3. Wait

You can teach your baby how to wait through simple everyday activities.

For example, when preparing food for your child, ask your child to comment on the food before he or she enjoys it; or when looking for toys for your child, say "Wait, the toys are about to appear!"; or when waiting for the elevator, lining up to buy things, waiting for your turn to play on the swing or slide.

4. Limit children from watching short videos

Currently on the market there are many short entertainment videos, only from 10 to 60 seconds.

According to psychologists, if children watch too many short videos, they will form the habit of being hasty, hasty and quickly bored.

This is also the reason why parents should control and limit as much as possible their children's viewing of short videos and instead focus on long entertainment videos with positive, healthy content.

5. Teach children to play alone

There are many benefits to letting children play alone. One of them is that children can find joy anywhere and anytime.

In addition, children have very rich imaginations, these games will not require any special preparation or participants.

There are many ways to teach your child to play independently, and the results will exceed all expectations if you persevere.

There are many benefits to letting children play alone. Illustration photo

6. Teach children "patience" activities

Parents should play and practice games with their children that encourage patience, such as puzzles.

Besides, children can do activities that require time and patience such as: planting flowers and vegetables in the garden; fishing...

Avoid letting your child use smartphones, it makes them more distracted and impatient.

7. Offer choices that encourage your child to defer immediate gratification.

Try negotiating, "You can have one cookie now, or if you wait until after dinner, you can have two."

This type of choice encourages children to take control of their wants and demands, and to postpone immediate "benefits" in order to wait for and receive a larger "reward."

This important early lesson will have a positive impact on your child as an adult.

8. Be a role model for your children

Finally, to help children learn patience, parents need to be role models for their children to follow.

Accordingly, let your children see that parents always try and make efforts to complete work, and are patient with their goals...

This way, children will understand and learn more from their own family members and not from anyone else.

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