Hello readers and thank you for stopping by my blog Be The Difference. I am a children’s book author and mother to three young children. I am dedicated to spreading the important messages in my books to children around the world. I strive to make a difference in my own home by spending time teaching my children character traits using age appropriate activities and quality children’s literature. I am sharing these lessons with you, week-by-week so that you can do the same. Let’s provide our children with tools they can use when they go out into the world and face difficult situations. Let’s give them a chance to grow up to be Problem Solvers! I would love to connect with you and continue this conversation—please see links at the bottom of this post— Maria Dismondy
What is Patience?
Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
From www.oxforddictionaries.com
Book I am using with this lesson:
How I used this book to teach about Patience
Book: Read or listen to the book with your child.
Discuss: Can you and your child both make connections to different times in your life where you have had to be patient? What are some tools you can use to practice patience? For examples here are a few: acknowledge the feelings of impatience that have come up, do something creative, read something, and practice deep, therapeutic breathing.
This is a great time to read this book with the holidays coming up. We have a rule that we make the children wait until after dinner to open their birthday presents, a great way to practice patience. During the holidays, we try to encourage the children to thank family members and to open one gift at a time!
Craft:
Candy Corn Monster or this cute Paper Plate Monster
Activity: Have your children color a REALLY big poster like these or create an amazing marshmallow structure.
Product I’ve created to go along with this lesson: Character Trait Posters
Video that models patience: The Marshmallow Test
More lessons about Patience
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