Patience and Delayed Gratification
Wait for things they want without becoming very distressed — practising patience and delayed gratification in everyday situations like waiting their turn, waiting for a treat, or waiting for help
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Choose an optional, manageable waiting plan and identify when to ask for help or stop.
No urgent need is being delayed; learner agrees to the activity and can opt out.
Check activity readiness with accessible response; pause or supply prerequisite help when needed. Do not treat age range or graph position as attainment.
Open teaching first, then learner cards. Adult key stays separate. Read supplied content; do not invent a passage, scene or history image.
Show and guided material are for teaching. Put them aside before recall; any passage, word bank or model used during the check must be recorded as support. Learner givens remain available for source-reading tasks.
Only scrap paper, pencil or ordinary safe objects where the authored task explicitly uses them; oral/pointing alternatives allowed.
No account, recording, real-user data or compulsory personal disclosure.
Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.
What this lesson covers and its limits
These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.
- partial: Wait for things they want without becoming very distressed — practising patience and delayed gratification in everyday situations like waiting their turn, waiting for a treat, or waiting for help
Bounded objective and prepared task only; all examples, universal claims and real-world behaviour are not established. Never withhold food, toilet access, comfort, help or essential communication. Real waiting without reminders is conditional; calm compliance is not the goal.
- partial: Wait for their turn in a game or activity without constant complaints
Only optional role-play; no genuine independent turn wait observed.
- partial: Describe what they do to help themselves wait, such as thinking about something else
A fictional plan replaces self-report of an established strategy.
- opportunity: Explain why sometimes we have to wait and that it is a skill they can practise
Prompt provides a reason for occasional waiting with alternatives.
- partial: If {{name}} has to wait their turn for something they really want — like a go on the iPad or being served dinner — can they wait without a big fuss?
Prepared adapted check is not a complete equivalent to all source contexts, images or genuine independent habits. Never withhold food, toilet access, comfort, help or essential communication. Real waiting without reminders is conditional; calm compliance is not the goal.
Never withhold food, toilet access, comfort, help or essential communication. Real waiting without reminders is conditional; calm compliance is not the goal.
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Choose an optional, manageable waiting plan and identify when to ask for help or stop.
Choose an optional, manageable waiting plan and identify when to ask for help or stop.
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Check understanding
- Wait for their turn in a game or activity without constant complaints
- Describe what they do to help themselves wait, such as thinking about something else
- Explain why sometimes we have to wait and that it is a skill they can practise
“If your child has to wait their turn for something they really want — like a go on the iPad or being served dinner — can they wait without a big fuss?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Self-Regulation & Resilience
- Age range
- Ages 5–7
Standards