Parenting With Temperament in Mind

Parenting with Temperament in Mind is a brilliant, cutting-edge, scientifically informed, and practical\caregiver’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’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’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’s temperament traits and ways parents can effectively adapt to their child’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’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