Birthdays, car rides, the last cookie in the jar: for young children, wanting something now feels urgent and enormous. Impulse control develops gradually, so waiting really is hard work for a small brain.<\/p>
Zuli knows the feeling. The bud is right there, so Zuli pokes and prods to help it along, and the flower starts to droop.<\/p>","problem_image":84,"solution_heading":"Patience Is a Muscle","solution_body":"
Coral doesn\u2019t scold. She explains that everyone has a patience muscle inside, and it gets stronger each time you choose to wait. Then she gives Zuli something to do while waiting: play with friends, swim loops through the coral, hum a song.<\/p>
Day by day Zuli checks in, swims off again and feels the muscle growing, until the flower finally blooms. The refrain sticks: \u201cI want it now! I really do! But my patience muscle is strong and true.\u201d<\/em><\/p> At the back: a note for grown-ups on how patience develops, conversation starters and patience-muscle activities.<\/p>","solution_image":82,"inside_heading":"Look inside Wait & Bloom","inside_intro":"A few watercolour pages from the story. Tap any page to see it larger.","inside_1":83,"inside_2":81,"inside_3":80,"inside_4":79,"benefits_heading":"What Your Child Takes Away","benefits_body":" Wait & Bloom helps children see waiting as practice rather than punishment, and gives your family a shared phrase for queues, car rides and special days.<\/p>","benefit_1_title":"Wanting Is Normal","benefit_1_text":"Zuli\u2019s eagerness is shown kindly, so children learn that wanting something is okay.","benefit_2_title":"The Patience Muscle","benefit_2_text":"A concrete picture that makes an invisible skill feel real and growable.","benefit_3_title":"Things to Do While Waiting","benefit_3_text":"Simple ideas for filling the wait, so it doesn\u2019t feel endless.","benefit_4_title":"The Reward of Waiting","benefit_4_text":"When the flower blooms, children see that some good things need time.","author_eyebrow":"From the author","author_heading":"Why I Wrote Wait & Bloom","author_body":" I\u2019m Ujjwal Ganesh, father of two daughters, and \u201cIs it ready yet?\u201d is a phrase I know well. Telling children to \u201cjust be patient\u201d asks them to do something invisible. A muscle you can feel getting stronger gave my girls something to work with.<\/p> Wait & Bloom is Book 2 of Little Brains, Big World, rhyming picture books in which Zuli the Octopus learns one everyday thinking skill per book.<\/p>","schema_description":"A rhyming picture book for ages 3 to 6 about patience: Zuli the Octopus learns that patience is a muscle that grows stronger every time you practise waiting. Includes a parent guide and activities."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}