Each child comes to earth with an inborn temperament that influences how they respond to everything they encounter. This is a list of the different traits of each child’s temperament.
- Activity level: how active the child is
- Distractibility: the degree to which other things distract from the task at hand
- Sensitivity: the energy of response to stimuli
- Rhythmicity: how regular their hunger, excretion, sleep, and wakefulness
- Sensory Threshold: intensity of stimulation required to evoke a response
- Approach/Withdrawal: response to a new object, situation, or person
- Adaptability: ease of adaptability to changes in child’s environment
- Persistence: the amount of time devoted to an activity and the effect of distraction on the activity
- Quality of mood: the amount of friendly, pleasant, joyful behavior as contrasted with unpleasant, unfriendly behavior
- Easy- 40% of children fall into this category
- Difficult- 10% of children fall into this category
- Slow to warm up- 15% of children fall into this category
- The other 35% of children's temperament doesn't fit exactly into one of the three categories
Attachments
- Secure attachment: Mother is responsive to baby’s needs gives baby faith to rely on her and trust her. Child uses mother as a secure base to explore the world.
- Insecure-avoidant attachment: Child acts independently. The mother didn’t respond to baby’s needs and thus the child learned they could not rely on the mother.
- Insecure-ambivalent attachment: Child is very clingy. The mother inconsistently responded to the baby’s needs. Thus the child is confused to whether or not they can trust the mother.
- To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself. - President Faust
- In the past, having family prayer once a day may have been all right. But in the future it will not be enough if we are going to save our families. – President Kimball
- And so it is with being parents. The little things are the big things sewn into the family tapestry by a thousand threads of love, faith, discipline, sacrifice, patience, and work. – President Faust
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