Due to instant gratification, children become very incompetent and are unable to take up or face challenges at all.

Instant Gratification refers to the immediate fulfilling of desire without any delay or deferment. Children are robbed of happiness when they are given instant gratification.

Ways How Happiness is Robbed

The ways how the children are deprived of happiness due to instant gratification are described below –

• First and foremost, the children begin to take the things for granted. When they are given all the things want immediately, the value of the things is lost.
• Instant gratification makes the children lose their problem solving capability because they never had to work for something.

 

Ways of Teaching Delayed Gratification

Delayed gratification is just opposite to that of instant gratification and is extremely essential for the children to make them happier in the future life. The different methods of teaching delayed gratification to the children are –

• The feelings, emotions, frustrations and other feelings of the children need to be attended to.
• Ticking off time is an excellent way to teach delayed gratification. Children should be taught the art of patience which can help the children to realize that waiting and anticipating for the future is fun.

Apart from the above – mentioned ways, there are several other ways which can be used to teach the children delayed gratification.

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