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    Parenting with Temperament in Mind
    Navigating the Challenges and Celebrating Your Child's Strengths

    Liliana J. Lengua (Author), Maria Amy Gartstein (Author)

    9781433838606

    Paperback / softback, published 20 August 2024

    286 pages
    21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.358 kg

    Parenting with Temperament in Mind is a brilliant, cutting-edge, scientifically informed, and practical\caregiver amp rsquo s guide to help you deeply understand your individual child and provide the attuned relational experiences needed to help them thrive. Packed with in-depth explorations of research on the innate temperament that helps shape the emerging personality of our kids, this important book amp rsquo s scientist-parent authors have created a work that combines the best of empirically validated approaches to tailoring our parenting approaches with the effective skills studies have shown to work. Your parenting and your children will be greatly enhanced by soaking in Lengua and Gartstein amp rsquo s practical everyday wisdom. - Daniel J. Siegel, MD; Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA; Clinical Professor Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, University of Los Angeles, CA (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, United States; New York Times Bestselling Author, Personality and Wholeness in Therapy, The Developing Mind

    Lengua and Gartstein have written a most informative guide for parents about how to effectively recognize and address various temperament styles in their young children. Replete with both practical advice and the evidence-base underlying their recommendations, these two scientist-practitioners have produced a volume that belongs in every home with young children. Highly recommended!

    - Robert J. McMahon, PhD, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States; Professor Emeritus and B.C. Leadership Chair in Reducing Violence Among Youth, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada

    This book goes well beyond a list of children amp rsquo s temperament traits and ways parents can effectively adapt to their child amp rsquo s traits. The book, by clinical psychologists well-known for their research on child development, offers up-to-date insights on the foundations of children amp rsquo s personalities and wise advice on a mindful parenting approach to preventing and managing child behavior problems. Parents who read it will gain richer and more effective ways of being with their children, and clinicians working with families of children with behavior problems will also gain useful ideas from it.

    - John E. Bates, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States The authors of this book successfully merge together their expertise as researchers, clinicians, and, as importantly, as parents. The result is a book that makes the scientific foundation of children's temperament accessible to parents and provides numerous practical strategies for parenting children with challenging temperaments. - Sandee McClowry, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States; RN, FAAN; Developer of NEW INSIGHTS Into Children's Temperament Written by two well-recognized experts, this book deftly merges the research on temperament and child rearing in a readily accessible way that will enable parents to tailor and personalize an approach that their children will benefit from immensely.
      - Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH; George Adkins Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States; Investigator, Center for Child Health, Behavior & Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute; Editor in Chief, JAMA Pediatrics

    This book will help parents understand and work more effectively with their young child amp rsquo s temperament.

    A Greater Good's Favorite Parenting Book
     
    Effective parenting isn amp rsquo t one-size-fits-all. Every child comes with an innate temperament, which includes a unique set of emotional reactions and personal strengths, a motivational style, and needs that demand attention. And every family has its own values and culture. While we cannot change our child amp rsquo s natural temperament (nor would we want to!), we can impact their self-regulation systems, nurture their positive behaviors, and promote healthy social and emotional development. In this book, psychologists Liliana Lengua and Maria Gartstein offer readers science-based recommendations for parenting based on the individual temperament of your child and the specific needs of your family.
     
    To help readers understand the innate nature of temperaments, the book begins with a brief, accessible overview of the neurobiological systems that underlie temperament. Combining this scientific understanding of temperaments with the latest psychological theories and research, as well as the authors amp rsquo own experience as clinicians and mothers, the authors present four broad parenting principles and then show how to apply these principles with young children of different temperaments. In particular, they focus on a handful of temperament characteristics that, when very strong, can present challenges related to children amp rsquo s social, emotional, and behavioral development and well-being. These include being fearful, impulsive, inflexible, and easily frustrated.
     
    With its simple practical advice, relatable examples, and questionnaires to help you assess your child amp rsquo s temperament and your own parenting practices, this book gives you the tools you need to parent more effectively and strengthen your relationship with your child.

    Introduction: Tailoring Your Parenting to Your Children's Temperament
    Part I. Understanding Temperament and Parenting
    Chapter . What Is Temperament?
    Chapter 2. Temperament Characteristics and Behaviors
    Chapter 3. Brain and Body Systems Underlying Temperament
    Chapter 4. Core Parenting Principles
    Part II. Parenting With Your Children's Temperament in Mind
    Chapter 5. The Fearful or Fearless Child
    Chapter . The Easily Frustrated Child
    Chapter 7. The Impulsive Child
    Chapter 8. The Inflexible Child
    Part III. The Core Parenting Principles
    Chapter 9. Be Present
    Chapter . Be Warm
    Chapter . Be Balanced
    Chapter 2. Be Consistent
    Chapter 3. Being Consistent with Common Challenges
    Afterword: Building Social and Emotional Competence, Joy, and Well-Being
    References
    Appendix A: Child Temperament Assessment 
    Appendix B: Parenting Self-Reflection 
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