How often do we tell our partners that will be ready to leave in five minutes?

And really, we mean 10 minutes or 20 minutes.

We do the same things to our kids if we think about it.

They demand something and we say, I'll get it for you in a second.

Well, they're trying to interrupt our conversation and we say, you know, I just need a minute to finish this conversation.

And what we mean is that we need 10 minutes or 15 minutes. And time is already a vague construct

to our kids. Right. So imagine like asking our four year old to wait a second. And they know what a

second is. They know it's just counting to one. And then they've been waiting for two

minutes and they're starting to get upset. It's like no wonder they're starting to get upset.

That's frustrating. So when you ask them to stretch and to grow and practicing their patients,

I would just encourage you to honor, honor them, honor how hard they're working at patients by just being honest with

how long you're actually asking them to wait.

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