Library · When I Have to Wait
when it is not your turn yet.
The library desk, someone being helped first, and a child who asks "is it my turn?" for the fourth time. Vivi turns a short, real wait into a narrated, animated story your child stars in: what happens next, how to tell when it is their turn, and a book to hold until then.
Who it helps
For children who ask again and again, wriggle, or push to the front when waiting cannot be skipped. Parents of autistic children and of children with attention differences use a waiting social story before appointments, lines and turn-taking games.
The wait in the story is honest: it is short, it is real, and nobody promises an exact number of minutes.
Choosing a book
The library, picking a book, and walking to the desk with a parent.
Someone else is first
A person is being helped. The parent explains what happens next, without a countdown.
Something to do
Holding the chosen book, looking at the cover, and watching for the sign that it is their turn.
Their turn
The librarian looks up and says hello, the book is stamped, and they walk out with it.
Yours, not ours. These are the moments a story like this usually walks through. You choose what goes into your child's, and read every page before it is animated.
Questions parents ask
Before any day with a known wait: the doctor, the post office, a theme park. And on ordinary days too, so "wait" becomes a sequence rather than a wall.
Yes. The library can become a bakery line, the doctor's waiting room or a turn on the slide, and the thing to hold can be whatever your child brings. You read every page before it is animated and ask for changes in plain words.
Tell them what happens next, show them the cue that means it is their turn, and give them one thing to do with their hands meanwhile. A social story with your child as the main character turns a wait into a known sequence with an ending they can see coming.
Your first story is free in your first 30 days. After that you buy credits: 3 for $9, 10 for $26 or 30 for $66. A story is 1 credit, and a Fully Animated story is 10 more. Your first routine, Choose-Along and plan are free, then 1 credit each. Bought credits never expire.
Your first story is free. Set up your child, start from When I Have to Wait, and watch it together before bed.
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Vivi Kids is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Carol Gray or Team Social Stories.
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