Read about why Temperament so important to the success and happiness of families.

Why is Temperament so Important?

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Raising CuddleBugs and BraveHearts Volume I

Measuring and Understanding Your Child's Temperament

We begin with the understanding that we each come into the world with our own built-in preferences to behave in particular ways. As we say in Raising CuddleBugs "Temperament is real, measurable and tied to quantifiable events in our bodies, minds and genes."

What does that mean for parents? It means that every parent and child twosome is a unique event. While we can describe good approaches to parenting in a general way for all parent/child combinations, mutual success for parent and child also depends on recognizing, accepting, and working with these unique qualities that exist in both parent and child.

A major flaw in most parenting advice is the assumption that one child is much like another (at least at the beginning) and one parent is much like another (or differs only in caring and effort). Instead, the unique and highly individualized temperament of the child makes a world of difference in how that child learns and socializes, how he or she responds to discipline, learns self control, reasons, and makes decisions about life. Parent temperament, in turn, has a profound influence on actual parenting style, no matter what theoretical model the parent follows.

Within this site We have posted many free and useful tools that you may enjoy. You can take our temperament measurements (Sorters) for both children and adults, free of charge at this time. You can scan excerpts from our "Raising CuddleBugs and BraveHearts" books, read more about our parenting philosophy and about us the authors and dialog with us in Visit the Authors.