Parenting Press Releases TEMPERAMENT TOOLS: WORKING WITH YOUR CHILD'S INBORN TRAITS

How inborn characteristics determine children's development and their behavior is explained in the just revised Temperament Tools: Working with Your Child's Inborn Traits by Helen F. Neville, one of Parenting Press's most popular parenting guides.

How to identify a child's traits and understand and work with them is the focus for Neville, a San Francisco Bay Area pediatric advice nurse, parenting educator and temperament specialist writing with parenting educator Diane Clark Johnson.

In chapters such as "What Makes My Child Tick?" they describe how the traits of energy level, adaptability, curious/cautious, frustration reaction, emotional intensity, mood, regularity and sensitivity affect the pace of physical, cognitive and emotional development. Throughout life, these traits will be significant in how a child responds to experiences of all kinds.

Just as important, the chapter "Temperament Tango, Parent & Child Together," helps parents and caregivers understand how their traits mesh with those of the children, and how to handle differences, such as the high-energy parent who perceives the low-energy child as lazy; or the cautious adult who is frightened by an adventurous child. The authors also describe what can happen when adult and child share characteristics such as intensity or easily frustrated.

Temperament Tools: Working with Your Child's Inborn Traits, ISBN 978-1-936903-25-2, $16.95 U.S. ($18.95 Can.) is available now. Contact your favorite bookseller or IPG, ipgbook.com, 800-888-4741.

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