“I’m so bored!”, “I want it now!” These are a few statements we as parents come across multiple times a day! Welcome to our battery operated and technology driven world, where virtual simulation gives kids instant gratification, that they seek even in the real world. And when they don’t get it, it results in a poor social emotional behaviour to begin with, which eventually leads to poor mental health.​​​​​​​

While this problem did not exist in our times, this generation faces this issue due to the following reasons-

1. Children have forgotten the habit of waiting and are used to instant gratification

2. Virtual world is a constant high due to over-stimulation, which leads to impatience and loss of attention span

3. In these times of over-abundance, kids’ demands are instantly met

4. Less contact with other kids and more with gadgets

When kids don’t get what they want instantly, it negatively effects their confidence and self-esteem, leading them to believe they are worthless. This plays out poorly in their lives, as they lose their decision-making ability and intuition. They lean on others to run their lives, which substantially effects their chances of leading a successful, happy and fulfilled life.

So what can we, as parents, do about it? While cutting them off their devices has other negative effects, we have to live alongside them. But we can definitely give them tools to develop patience and delay gratification.

This has many benefits like-

1. They would be able to make wiser decisions as they would tend to be less impulsive. 

2. Patience is fundamentally tied to success in academic, professional, and social settings later in life.

3. Patient children inherently learn things like self-control, respect, mindfulness and courtesy along the way. 

4. They will make friends more easily and have the drive to stick with projects and activities they start.

5. They will also be able to cope with anger more easily when they don’t get what they want.

In this program your child will learn techniques to be patient through a story, an animation, worksheets and affirmations. This is a very important habit to cultivate from a young age. If kids learn to be patient in their early stages of life, they will know how to handle tricky and important situations that come up later in their teenage and adolescence. They will have a better understanding of situations, and they will not succumb to peer pressure and thus make better choices, leading happy and fulfilled lives.