Creating That Image:
Most parent start out with expectations about their child's
temperament. When they don't come true, parent often act as if they
had. As a result, their parenting style doesn't match up well with
their child's temperament. Problems result.
Here you can use over 13 years of behavioral research by The
Preventive Ounce to gain a clearer picture of your child's current
temperament. You can compare your general impressions (which often are
colored by your expectations) with scale scores based on more specific
details reflecting your child's temperament... details you might
otherwise not consider.
To give you this picture of your child's temperament, we need your
answers to a brief, two-part questionnaire. In the first part, we ask
for your general impressions of your child's temperament. In the
second, we ask specific questions covering concrete situations which
reveal your child's temperament throughout the day.
Once both parts are completed, you will see a temperament profile
which integrates your general impressions and questionnaire results and
compares them to a normative sample of children the same age.
If your child is high or low on any major temperament scale, you can
call up sub-scale profiles that show you exactly where your child was
high or low. Click on any scale or subscale name and learn what general
strategies work best.
If you want to know the specific temperament-related issues
more likely to occur for your child in the months ahead, you can click
on FORECAST.
The program will use all your questionnaire information and our
probability data base to tell you what temperament-related issues are
likely to occur often, occasionally, once-twice, or not at all. To see
management tips for any issue, just click on the issue name.
Getting Started:
Eventually, there will be three questionnaires available to you, each
for a specific age:
To go to the Infant or Toddler Questionnaire now, click on the
corresponding link above.
Parents who have already completed the questionnaire and wish to
access prior results may enter their record identifier below:
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