How to cultivate children’s patience?

Children generally lack patience, but they must develop patience and concentration from an early age so that they can develop good habits for the future. If children lack patience, they will not be able to concentrate on anything they do, and they will lack persistence in doing things. Therefore, it is important for mothers to cultivate their children's concentration and patience. How to cultivate children's patience? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. How to cultivate children's patience

I often hear some parents complain about their children: "My child is not stupider than other children, he just has no patience. He always starts things with great enthusiasm but never finishes them. He always gives up halfway." In response to this situation, parents should know that whether doing things has a beginning and an end is a question of willpower in psychological activities. Whether one's will is strong or not has an important impact on the success or failure of one's study and work when one grows up. So, how should parents cultivate their children's patience?

1. Parents should set an example

Many children lack patience because their parents’ requests for them to do things are often half-hearted. Therefore, parents are first required to pay attention to not causing their children to develop behavioral habits of giving up halfway. Before starting a new activity, he must be allowed to finish the ongoing activity.

2. Set up some obstacles for your child

Parents should consciously set some obstacles for their children and provide them with opportunities to overcome difficulties. Because patience is honed by strong will. The more difficult the environment, the more it can train children's patience. We should encourage him not to give up halfway when doing things, and to complete something well requires hard work. When a child completes a task after hard work, he or she should be praised in a timely manner to reinforce the good habit of seeing things through to the end.

3. Focus children's attention and immerse them in an activity for a long time.

Let your children know that many things in life require patience and waiting. Sometimes children want to eat right away when they are hungry, want to drink right away when they are thirsty, and want to buy a toy right away. Parents can intentionally delay for a while and not meet their children's demands immediately in order to cultivate their patience.

4. Characteristics of babies who lack patience

Children who lack patience tend to show three tendencies: excessive violence, dependence, and laxity.

1. Violence

This is the biggest characteristic of an impatient child. No matter who makes you do something you don't want to do or doesn't get what you want, you will lose control and scream, swear, or hit children. At first, I would blame myself, but once it becomes a habit, the feeling of guilt would disappear. I would not even listen to my parents’ advice and would instead lose my temper and get angry.

2. Dependencies

When faced with a slightly unfamiliar or difficult problem, they lose the will to solve the problem on their own and turn to others for help. This dependence will gradually make the baby become weak-willed.

3. Poor attention span

Babies who lack patience will certainly not be persistent in doing things, and thus will appear to be inattentive and distracted. When playing with toys, he would look at this and pick up that; when joining piano, art, calligraphy and other classes, he could not stick with any of them.

5. How to judge a child’s patience index

It is well known that children nowadays lack patience. They easily lose their temper and fight with other children. When they lack patience, they will give up at the slightest difficulty.

6. How to judge the child's patience index

1. You can’t finish what you start.

2. Willful.

3. Often cry easily.

4. They are easily emotional and it is difficult to predict what they will do.

5. Like to move while eating.

6. Sit and stand at times while watching TV. 7. Unable to persist in playing with one toy, but instead picks up this and touches that.

8. Selfish, only caring about yourself.

9. Biting your fingernails.

10. Being nervous, jumpy, or often feeling uneasy.

11. Emotionally unstable and changeable.

12. What you do is not commensurate with your age.