Being Patient ii

What happens if you don’t help your children wait

patiently in a queue? Quite a lot. At worst, your child

will start to scream, whine, grizzle and throw a

tantrum.

This is miserable for the child, irritating for those

around you, and miserable, irritating and embarrassing

for you. If your child is more compliant,

he or she might try getting up to tricks while you’re not

looking (and the City Mini baby strollers in our

Disney rental stroller fleet have a handy see-through panel so you can keep an eye on your child while they’re in the stroller.

Tricks might include tinkering with the safety harness to see if they can

get it undone (rather tricky in the City Mini, thank

goodness) or pulling off removable bits of clothing

and chucking them into obscure corners,

leaving your child barefoot and minus that hat you had

counted on to keep them safe from the strong Orlando sunshine.

The trick to helping your child be patient is to give

them something to do while they’re waiting. Ideally, these pastimes (derived from “pass-times” so a good word to use in this context) should be of the

sort that a child can do solo so you can take photos and

upload them to your Facebook page as you wish.

Nursery rhymes and finger games are often popular,

even if this does mean you have to abandon a little bit

of grown-up dignity and squat down beside your Disney rental stroller to sing with your child and teach him/her how the

actions toIncy Wincy Spider.

Not that you will be losing much dignity – most people

who notice will probably think that you’re being a great parent and admire

you rather than otherwise.

Food is another great way to help your child while

away the time in the queue, and this doesn’t require too much of your input, apart

from providing the snack or drink.

Having a chiller pack as an accessory with your Disney rental stroller helps here,

as it makes a good place to put the drinks when they’re

not needed so they stay cool, especially if you put an icepack in the chiller

pack.

For your child’s sake, it’s best to make sure that

these snacks and drinks are lower in sugar content, as a glucose high will probably make your child even more prone to being impatient.

Water is a good drink (and won’t go all sticky if spilt), and dried fruit, crackers, crisps, cookies and fresh fruit are good snacks that

(sneaky thought) can take a bit of time to eat

A small box of raisins is quite good, as little fingers take some time to fish all

those raisins out of the box and the empty box can be

played with later.And remember – the queue

will get shorter and eventually you will be able

to get on that ride!

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