Wondering how to teach patience in a world that wants everything five minutes ago? You might feel like you’re fighting a losing battle, but a patient child grows to become a patient adult. While teaching patience to kids might be a test of a mom’s self-control, it’s a character trait that we have to focus on.
If you want to know how to teach patience to kids iMOM’s Good Character Traits printable is a great starting point. We’ve designed a calendar to help you focus on a different trait each month, but if your child needs an extra focus on patience, this printable can be used at any time of the year. It includes a definition you can cut out and hang on the fridge or the mirror in your child’s bathroom (or both). There’s also a Bible verse to offer direction and encouragement.
Part of teaching patience is having discussions about the trait and how it relates to life, so we’ve included a conversation starter question to dig deeper. It’s guaranteed to help your child think differently about patience. We’re so confident that these tools along with our calendar and its accompanying stickers will lead to great things for your child that the printable page includes a reward certificate with space for you to write how you saw your child being patient. If you really want to reinforce the lesson, you can print a handful and give a certificate to your child weekly. And because we know kids love rewards, each Good Character Trait printable comes with a coupon to give your child. Use our reward, or come up with one of your own that you know will be a big incentive. Teaching patience to kids is worth the hard work you’re going to put in.
is just one of 12 character traits we want to help you build in your kids. Here are more.
