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Characteristics and Personality Traits in Children.

How much is genetic? How much the way God made them? And how much influence does a parent have on a child’s personality and character traits? These questions have always fascinated me. I started thinking about them again today after reading Lyn’s blog about, what the way a child colors says about them and their schoolwork. When our son was young we had his room filled with myriad soft toys in bright colors and orange pictures or bright cartoon characters on the lemon walls. I was determined not to go for the traditional blue. A colored mobile hung above the … Continue reading →

Nurture by Nature – Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger

I don’t know about your children, but I know that what works for one of mine doesn’t necessarily work the others. And I rarely recognize my own children when I read parenting books. Nurture by Nature: Understand Your Child’s Personality Type—And Become a Better Parent is one parenting book where I not only caught glimmers of my own children, but found some helpful advice on raising their particular personality type. Personality Type was first devised by psychologist Carl Jung. The mother-daughter team of Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers expanded on his ideas. According to Myers-Briggs, there are sixteen basic … Continue reading →

When You and Your Child’s Temperament DON’T Match

One of the major adjustments to and challenges of parenting is getting used to an entirely new little person and personality. No matter who you imagined your unborn child would be or how blissfully and psychically you thought you would be communicating, sometimes a parent and a child have temperaments that not only don’t “match”, but they can really be an abrasive clash! Just because this is one of the common adjustments to parenting certainly doesn’t make it easy–it can be a lifelong process coping with major personality differences between we parents and our children. I know when I was … Continue reading →

Parenting Your Only Child – What to Expect and Do

Only children have many of the characteristics of first-born children only in triplicate. They tend to be even more responsible and greater perfectionists. They are comfortable with adults because they spend most of their time in adult company. Only Child Traits Close relationship to parents Good self control Leadership Skills Mature Dependable Unforgiving Demanding Sensitive – feelings easily hurt Difficulty sharing Overly critical of others Private May feel under pressure to succeed Also many of the first-born characteristics Parenting the Only Child Let them be a child. Only children are often mature for their age and it is easy for … Continue reading →

Parenting Your Youngest Child – What to Expect and Do

Your youngest child is your last child and to some degree every parent wants to keep them young. Last born children are driven to catch up with their older siblings. Youngest children always have someone to play with and as a result tend to be social. They also have a chance to develop their silly side, since the older siblings usually shoulder most of the responsibility. For these reasons youngest children have some unique characteristics. Last-born Traits Risk takers Outgoing Creative – idea person Strong people skills – love to talk to others Extrovert Competitive – pushes themselves to keep … Continue reading →

Does Birth Order Affect Personality?

I have found the concept of birth order affecting personality fascinating ever since I attended an education seminar on the topic with a fellow teacher. I am an oldest child and she was a youngest. It was interesting as we listened to the speaker outline the traits associated with each birth position how many of the traits we exhibited within our own lives. We also recognized the traits in many of our students. Why does birth order affect personality? The reason is because parents aren’t perfect so each child’s environment, largely depending upon their birth order is different. More responsibilities … Continue reading →

The 9 Temperamental Traits

What is temperament? Temperament is a set of traits that helps determine your child’s personality, and in turn their behavior. These traits are inherent from birth, and will most likely remain through adulthood. These characteristics help explain why a child likes to be cuddled, or is constantly moving. Learning about temperament helps parents understand why their children react to certain situations and avoid difficulties. Temperament Traits These traits were developed through careful research compiled and conducted by Doctors Chess and Thomas. Activity Level: is how active your child is most of the time. Is your infant always wiggling? Does he … Continue reading →

What Type of Teachers Do Students Like?

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Most of us can remember at least a few teachers from our academic career. Some of those teachers have fond memories in our minds and others are the dreaded teachers that we frown upon thoughts of being in their classes. Throughout a school there are teachers who are well known and liked by the students and there are teachers that are not liked so much by the students. So what is about a teacher that gains good comments and gets good scores from a child? Students like teachers for different reasons. The traits that students like about teachers all depends … Continue reading →

Friend or parent – part 2

On Saturday when my daughter rang,as we were talking,I mentioned Kori’s blog , and the idea that you could not be best friend and parent to your child. ‘It needs to be a balance between the two,’ my daughter said, which I agree with. One of our favorite shows is ‘Gilmore Girls.’ I have bought and finished watching season 7 which has only just been released in Australia. It’s also one of my daughter’s favorites and for the same reason. We both loved the close relationship between Lorelei and Rory. Even so, there were some times I felt like getting … Continue reading →

Capturing the Complete Person in Your Scrapbooks

In everyone’s life there are people that are important, and it is high time you capture the complete person on your scrapbooking pages. It does not matter if you are a parent who mostly scrapbooks their child or children, or if you are a single guy or gal and scrapbooking the other people in your life. It is all significant no matter the stage in your life. Capturing the complete person is important as important as capturing the events that these people partake in, which is what we as scrapbookers do traditionally. This is not limited to the people in … Continue reading →