ABSTRACT
All children need to learn how and when to take turns with others. Throughout our lives, we continue to need this ability. Adults of all ages know how to take turns to speak in conversations, to form queues in shops and to wait for buses, to sit in waiting rooms until they are called for appointments and to find appropriate ways and times to achieve their desires without upsetting other people. There are few things more irritating to most of us than the person who ‘jumps a queue’ or continuously interrupts with his or her own views and never listens properly to anybody else. These people will find themselves without the friends and career and life possibilities that they could have had if they were more able to make themselves acceptable to the majority. So it is important to give our children the necessary skills and not deny them the chance to learn them.
