Teaching waiting and patience can be difficult. Learning to wait for what we want is difficult and sometimes harder to teach. Systematically teach appropriate waiting behaviors through social stories, behavior skills instruction, communication, and visual supports.

Learning to wait is an essential skill for self-management and self-awareness skill and aligns with CASEL's core competencies of social emotional learning.

These behavior skills instructions for Learning to wait:

⭐ Social Stories

⭐ Discussion Questions

⭐ 3 When I Have to Wait Task Analysis (mini-routines for replacement behaviors)

⭐ When I Have to Wait Communication scripts for toleration responses

⭐ When I Have to Wait Option cards for functional communication training

⭐ When I Have to Wait Task box activity sort

⭐ When I Have to Wait Behavior Contingency Map

⭐ Waiting Timers- variety of choices

⭐ Waiting Countdown- variety of choices

⭐ Behavior Expectation Icons

For more self-regulation activities check out these related products:

⭐Identifying Triggers: Emotional Regulation

⭐Ready to Learn Behaviors

⭐Requesting a Break: Functional Communication Training

⭐Accepting No

⭐Behavior De-Escalation Bundle