pixie,
recently, i try to teach Celeste the concept of time. My house has a digital clock and since Celeste can recognise numbers already, we use the clock to inform her.
So for example, now she knows that she must go to sleep at 9 o'clock.. Once she sees a 9, she knows its time to sleep. Or when it's already 9+pm and she still don't want to sleep, we'll tell her to look at the clock and she realises that it's actually sleeping time already and will go to sleep.
Or when we tell her we are going to the Kids Explorer, she gets so excited and keeps asking when we are going. So we tell her, after her nap at 4 o'clock. When she wakes up from her nap, she learns to look at the time and will remind us to set off when she sees "4".
The rule of thumb is just to get her to be aware of time and she gotta wait for whatever that is going to come. Slowly teaching her the minutes also.
Then what I do if I need like just a few minutes of wait time, I get her to do counting like count to 20. Then count again.
Don't know if this helps to teach X how to "wait" for time to come?
Krystle,
haha.. unlike you, sometimes I do tell Celeste in advance what we're going to do, especially if I know she likes it coz then I'll say, "You want to go XXX right? So you must be guai guai then we will go after blahblahblah ok?" Normally that works. hehehe.
But like your kids, she is also very "naggy". Always ask the same question for the trillion time.
That day I brought out a photo album of Celeste when she was younger, she kept asking me where are all those things that belong to her! Her haenim playard, her many soft toys, her baby cot, her playpen, her baby swing, etc. Geeeeez. Cannot say give away coz she will cry. In the end, I had to keep bluffing her that Grandma had stored it away in the storeroom. lolz..