Your Personality Style and the Art of Saying No

As we hit the home run stretch of the holiday season, one of the most important words, we as parents can learn to say is "…

Understanding Personality Styles is Key to Classroom Management

 Classroom (Photo credit: James F Clay )  During pre-planning this year, I spoke at Woodstock Elementary School about connectin…

How Can You Use Personality Style To Motivate Children?

Peeled, whole, and longitudinal section (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A good friend's daughter has a three year old who calls ba…

Parenting Your Careful, Conscientious Child

Image by M@rg via Flickr So your child isn't a high energy, steady or  strong willed child.  What is the last personality st…

Parenting The Shy Sensitive Child

You gotta love kids.  I was recently teaching a class on feelings and the book I was reading had the line in it... "Are you …

Parenting the High Energy Child

Image via Wikipedia In the last post, I talked about the 'D' wired personality.  Another outgoing personality type is the…

Parenting The Strong-Willed Child

Image by Tony Trần via Flickr I have a comic strip on my door at work that has a little boy telling his Dad, "You'll ne…

Do you sometimes wish your child came with an instruction manual? Not only do children come in all shapes and sizes, they also co…