Sidestep Power Struggles by Understanding Your Childs Temperament

On-Demand Class · Parenting

This is a powerful course beginning with understanding the Nine Traits that we all come into the world with. This course creates profound changes for families as it goes beyond behaviour modification and skills training.

Class Description

Research has shown that the more parents understand their child's unique temperament, the higher the level of self-esteem in the child. Studying this material will help you parent each one of your children in a way that suits and supports them. We all come into the world with a blueprint, this, plus our life experience forms our personality. You have temperament too. See how this interacts in your family. In this course you will learn specific strategies from dealing with persisitence or defiance, distractibility to helping more cautious children thrive. How sensitive is your child physically? How can you work with the challenges and promote the positives?

Class Materials

You will receive a 30 page booklet with all the information you hear me lecture about.

Sessions Overview

  1. I Gotta Be Me: Introduction: Grab a pen and some paper. This introduction section will explain how to take this course.
  2. Activity Level: Does your child seem busy? Always on the move? Or do they need a little more downtime with more methodical body movements. Identifying this will manage many antecedents. Take a look.
  3. Distractible?: All young children are distractible but some are DISTRACTIBLE. The parenting pit fall is to get caught in the nagging trap. Don't do it, it makes things worse! What to do.
  4. Strong Willed? Persistent!: Are you parenting a mini lawyers. Do you get into power struggles frequently. Here is the magic pill...okay, not quite but breaking this pattern will turn things around.
  5. Approach: Is your child cautious? Do they need time to warm up to a new place, person or thing? Don't label them shy, learn how to work with this trait. Or, do they run to new things, people and places. Oh the joy!
  6. Adaptable or not so much.: Some children do not like surprises. They like certainty, routine and if you spring a change, they might react. you want to nurture flexibility in your child. Learn how.
  7. Intensity: Can you make super quiet inside noises? Oh. You can't. Intense people have passion, volume and you know how they feel. Intense children may blurt out all kinds of lovely things. Are you intense too?
  8. Body Rhythm and Mood: The last three traits are: Body Regularity, Sensory Sensitivity and finally, Mood. You will identify all kinds of triggers in this section. Can you say Hangry?

Your Instructor

Allison Rees

Dr. Allison Rees has been teaching the LIFE Seminars for thirty years while working in her counselling practice and raising her own children who are now amazing adults. She is the author of two parenting books and hundreds of articles. The LIFE material is trusted by mental health professionals, teachers and of course the thousands of participants that have gone through her courses. Her top notch classes provide participants with practical and profound information that prove to be life changing.

Degrees and Certifications

Ph.D in Human Development and Organization, clinical, devleopmental, social and personality psychology, MSc in counselling Certified Hypnotherapist, Emotion Focused Therapy, Bowen Family Systems Theory, Internal Family Systems Certification with Coaches Training Institute

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