Have you ever noticed how a bubble bath just isn't as much fun without the bubbles? Of course, ha.  As I was running my girls bath tonight, it reminded me of one of the hardest lessons in life to learn, one of which I'm still learning: Delayed gratification.  My former pastor spoke on this all the time and it has always stuck with me, the importance of teaching our children delayed gratification.

In our current world, everything says, "Right Now!" And of course our children easily buy into that, who wouldn't want things immediately, every time, all the time. The consequences of that mentality though can be devastating (insert our current economy).  So, as my children are trying to rush into the tub of 1/2" water with barely a bubble, I made them stop tonight and wait until more water had built up and pointed out how many more bubbles there are when we wait.  Oh now, mind you, they disliked the waiting part immensely, but thoroughly enjoyed the tub full of bubbles after the wait. 

I'm sure your children are better at mine than waiting, but it is an important lesson to constantly be looking for ways to teach.  It is an old adage, but ever so true, "Good things come to those who wait."