Patience, Anyone?

Moms, In the spirit of this week's reflection, "French Musings," I wanted to pass along a couple of related articles on patience.  That seemed to be something that French parents fostered, but that doesn't sound easy.  This past week my older son turned four.  For his birthday, we bought him his first bike with training wheels.  We went to the store so that he could test drive the options and pick one out, but we insisted that he wait a full week until his birthday to ride it once we got home.  We called it an exercise in patience.  He called it torture!

Here is an article with six practical tips on how we can foster patience in our children:
http://www.ehow.com/how_8602589_teach-children-patience-selfrestraint.html

Here is a brief blog entry about how we can foster patience in our own lives:
http://www.thechangeblog.com/cultivating-patience/

To read my reflection referenced above, click here:
http://vocationalmothering.blogspot.com/2013/02/french-musings.html