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Temperament . . .

by Susie Windle | Oct 21, 2015 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Your Child's Brain

Temperament is a term referring to a genetic foundation for individual differences in personality.   The overall stability of temperament, however, is actually low in infancy and toddlerhood and only moderate from preschool age on up. This means that children’s...

Optimizing anxiety . . .

by Susie Windle | Aug 12, 2015 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, The Importance of Emotions, Your Child's Brain

In favorable conditions, a child learns how to manage feelings of anxiety by being exposed to just the right amount of distress. The optimal amount of anxiety to be experienced by a child will depend on his or her age as well as temperament. No mathematical formula is...

To discipline effectively, know your child . . .

by Susie Windle | Sep 17, 2014 | Discipline and Trying Times, Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, Your Child's Brain

Knowing your child while he or she is growing is important as you practice parenting. Each child is his or her own little being, and each child will go through developmental stages differently. Effectively providing discipline will be easier if you keep this in mind....

Empathy and sympathy . . .

by Susie Windle | Aug 8, 2012 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, The Importance of Emotions

Empathy—feeling what another person might feel—is an emotional capacity more common in early childhood than during the preceding toddler years. Empathy is one of the important motivators of healthy social behavior that leads to sympathetic responses of concern and...

Touch and movement . . .

by Susie Windle | Feb 9, 2011 | Parenting Playbook, Parenting Skills, The Power of Play

Some children seek out touch and movement more than others. Often these are the kids that have higher activity levels. They may want to swing highest on the swing and will likely find jumping in a mud puddle great fun. Other kids find too much touch and movement...

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