Teaching Delayed Gratification

Jacob won and is now Student Council President!

Today, James and I fulfilled our promise to Jacob by taking him to the Apple Store to buy an i-pod nano. While we were there,we noticed that the i-pod nano was really very boring compared to the i-touch. The nano only played music. The i-touch was a video camera and gamer,book reader, AND music player on top of that. Of course,there was quite a price difference. The nanon would have cost about $140 while the i-touch cost $220. James and I were thinking that the i-touch was a much better piece of technology for the price. Jacob and Joanna were also having fun with the i-touch samples. We decided that we would give Jacob an incentive to upgrade. The condition was that he had to first fulfill his campaign promises in order to get the i-touch. It was about delaying gratification because, regardless of whether he chose getting the i-pod or not, I would make him fulfill campaign promises. But I thought this would be a nice incentive.

It was really hard for Jacob because he was not used to delaying gratification, but with the help of a really cool young, male Apple salesperson who was talking to him, telling him that the i-touch was worth the wait, Jacob chose to wait for the i-touch. I really hope Jacob will appreciate the value of delayed gratification because of this!