working with your child's temperament

Working with Your Child’s

Temperament

Connie Rossini

Kids are different from each other!

Some are energetic and intense.

Some are thoughtful and serious.

Some just want to have fun!

Some hate to move.

1.Quick or slow response?

2. Short or lasting impressions?

Hippocrates categorized these differences.

Describe your child in one word.

CholericUnstoppable

MelancholicSerious

SanguineLight-hearted

PhlegmaticStill

Parenting by temperament

Avoid power struggles with the choleric.

Give the melancholic space.

Let the sanguine have fun.

Motivate the phlegmatic with praise.

Temperaments in the classroom

Extroverts grow bored easily.

Introverts need lots of work time.

What is your child’s greatest spiritual challenge?

PrideDespairSensualitySloth

God made each child different.

A Spiritual Growth Plan for Your Choleric Child by Connie Rossini is available at Amazon.Children’s photos copyright Dan Rossini.Hippocrates clipart from wpclipart.comLion photo by fortherock, Flickr Creative CommonsOwl photo copyright Mark BridgerChimp photo copyright Abeselom Zerit Retriever photo copyright Mila Atkovska