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Why Temperament Matters: Guidance Strategies for Young Children
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Cindy Croft
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546599 (Paperback)
546605 (e-book)
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978-1-60554-659-9 (Paperback)
978-1-60554-660-5 (e-book)
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3-8
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Learn the nine temperament traits which influence a child’s behavior
Why Temperament Matters: Guidance Strategies for Young Children
addresses early childhood behavior guidance strategies related to children’s specific temperament traits. There are nine temperament traits that influence a child’s behavior.
Activity Level
Distractibility
Persistence
Adaptability
Approach/Withdrawl
Intensity
Regularity
Sensory Awareness
Mood
All nine traits are grouped into three major categories of personality: easy/flexible, feisty/spirited, and slow-to-warm-up/sensitive.
This book provides specific ideas about how a child care provider can adjust the early childhood program and environment to meet the individual needs of each child’s temperament. There is a specific emphasis on children who fall into the feisty/spirited or the slow-to-warm-up/sensitive categories because they are often the ones who are expelled with challenging behaviors.
Why Temperament Matters
explains where challenging behaviors may originate in temperament and provides strategies for meeting temperament needs that prevent or lessen challenging behaviors.
208 pages.
About Cindy Croft
Cindy Croft, MA, is the founding director of the Center for Inclusive Child Care and has worked in teh early childhood field for more than 25 years. She provides technical assistance and
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Reviews
- January 4, 2021
"This book is a must-read for both early childhood professionals and parents. Its focus on research, the importance of the adult-child relationship, and on practical strategies for supporting individuality in young children are foundational to high-quality early childhood education."
Review
by: Ann Bailey,
Center for Early Education and Development, University of MN
- December 31, 2020
"Understanding your own temperament traits, and those of the children in our program, is an important foundation of understanding for us to best meet children where they are and support their development. This book provides practical knowledge to better understand children and provides strategies to assure their success."
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by: Christine Bentley,
Director of Education and Employment, Fraser
- December 30, 2020
"Drawing on her years of direct experience in the early childhood field, Ms. Croft provides a well-laid out and in-depth guide tto temperament traits and how child care providers/programs can focus their practice to address or prevent behavior challenges. She includes important reminders about how a provider's own temperament can influence their practice and the lens through which they see the children in their care."
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