Patience

As anyone who has had or has a toddler knows that they can become very inpatient. We have been teaching Owen about patience and trying to instill this wonderful trait in him. He can say patience and enjoys saying it so that helps a lot. (I would recommend teaching this word to your child.) When Owen is being very inpatient, I very calmly tell him he needs to have patience, then he will keep repeating “patience, patience” and calm down and wait. Of course this doesn’t work all the time; sometimes he will repeat the word several times and then the word becomes more and more of a whine. But heck most of the time it works long enough for me to get what he needs or wants.