Lesson 15: Handling Waiting

Why This Lesson Matters

The ability to wait is an important part of emotion management. In research on waiting skills, or “delay of gratification,” students with good waiting skills tended to get higher scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) in high school and showed more social-emotional competence in adolescence and adulthood.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Identify the Calming-Down Steps

• Apply the Calming-Down Steps while waiting in a game situation

Lesson Concepts

• The Calming-Down Steps can help you manage feeling excited or impatient while waiting.

• Finding quiet things to do that won’t distract others also helps you wait.