“BUT I WANT IT NOW!” he whines

“I’m hungry now, why can’t we get take away NOW?”

“Because I can make you something when we get home” I snap back

“But that will take TOO LONG!” He hrrumphs

How did I create little human beings who cannot wait, who want it now! Is it just me or are there other parents out there experiencing this lack of patience, lack of self-regulation? I have always been fair and firm but that doesn’t stop the whining. When I was a kid it was embarrassing to admit to an adult that you were bored, it was a sign to the world that you lacked imagination. Now there is no such embarrassment. I’m bored my youngest will say, surrounded by Lego, books and miscellaneous toys!

A sure way to sight my teenagers is if there is a problem with the WI-FI they emerge into the light screaming about what actually is,” A first world problem, I begin..,”

“Yeah, yeah, blah , blah mum, I have a whole seven other people on my team relying on me, come on you have to do something now!”

It seems like I’m beginning to sound a lot like my parents,

” Go and play, there’s plenty to do, have patience, just wait!”

But you know perhaps the rules really have changed, why go look up a word in a dictionary;  there is always an app for that. Same with places; an atlas to find a place? I can google It?

Technology has changed the rate of information exchange and answers. You can buy and find out stuff more quickly and easily so why wait? If a computer can answer you why can’t you in real life? I worry that the small discoveries we make on the journey may be lost.  We actually may find we know less when we rush and don’t stop to find out, really find out..

Actually it’s spilled over into adults too. We write a text now and expect a quick response , the same with emails!

The other day I joined a new dating site and experienced a fish frenzy of texts saying: “Hello!”

“What u doin?”

“Hi gorgeous want 2 chat?”

“Hi there cutie you caught my eye, want to chat?”

“Wanta go on a date?”

“Hi sexy any plans tonight?”

if I didn’t reply quickly enough they just moved on ( they hadn’t found out about me but my reply needed to be prompt); it was incredible. Indeed dear reader I found myself part of it to, I found myself lacking patience and after the mere whiff of interest and a couple of exchanges here was what was destined to be the greatest love in history! But no I was wrong and suddenly I was back, threshing about in the pond with everyone else! I just wish that the world would just slow down the pace and really look, but dear reader I think that is unlikely and I am going to have adapt and find some sort of balance between pondering and having it right now…