Temperament Tools: Working with Your Child's Inborn Traits - Softcover

Neville, Helen; Johnson, Diane Clark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884734340 ISBN 13: 9781884734342

Publisher: Parenting Press, 1998

Synopsis

The most recent and respected research on how temperament can affect a child's progress toward developmental milestones and responses to new experiences
 
Research shows that many challenging behaviors are connected to a child's inborn temperament, the unique set of characteristics that each child is born with. When adults who work with children understand what makes a child tick, they can adapt their parenting, teaching, or treatment protocols to the individual needs of each child. Coauthor Helen Neville has updated the contents of the original edition ofTemperament Tools to reflect the latest understanding about inborn temperament and its effects on behavior. Certain behavior clusters go with certain combinations of temperament traits and some clusters result in a child who can be quite a challenge. This book describes many types of children and offers strategies to help deal with behavior resulting from inborn temperament. Parents fill out a temperament chart to help define and understand their child, then consult the appropriate chapter that refers to that type of child. Temperament Tools avoids the use of psychological jargon while featuring the extensive practical understanding of children and their parents' questions and needs for skills. Adults using the book find the sections on practical ways to handle kids with temperament in mind to be valuable for restoring peace in home or school.

About this title

About the Author

Helen Neville, B.S., R.N. is a pediatric nurse and parent educator at Kaiser- Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California. Her goal is to practice preventative medicine by helping parents take care of the physical and emotional needs of their children, and to help them cope with stress. Diane Clark Johnson is a certified family life educator. As a mother and stepmother, she brings practical insight to her temperament practice and parenting workshops.

From the Back Cover

Children are unique from the moment they're born. Knowledge of inborn temperaments gives you a head start in understanding you little one and makes your all-important job as a parent much easier! With the help of this book, you can:

-learn what's normal for you child

-learn how to manage challenging behavior

-teach your child to cope with his or her temperament

-avoid blame and guilt

Reviews

Starting with the idea that all children are born with individual temperaments, Neville and Johnson, parenting educators in Oakland, California, build on the work of Dr. Stella Chess and Dr. Alexander Thomas, who identified nine temperament traits in children. Parents are encouraged to identify their children's temperament types based on descriptions for activity level, adaptability, approach to new things, frustration reaction, intensity of emotions, mood, regularity, and sensitivity. The remaining chapters describe various temperament types and give parents suggestions for how to deal with children who have them. Special attention is given to the "mesh" between the parent's temperament and that of the child. This is a useful book for all parents and others who work closely with children. Highly recommended.?Kay L. Brodie, Chesapeake Coll., Wye Mills., Md.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Parenting Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1884734340
• ISBN 13: 9781884734342
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Garbot Dave
• Number of pages: 128