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Contents

What is Temperament?Snapshot of Your TemperamentRecord Your Score4 Core Parent Temperament Style SummariesYour Starring Parenting RoleYour PreferencesYour ChallengesKnow Yourself First and Know Your Child Too

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What Is Temperament? Core Temperament refers to your inherited patterns or traits that manifest as strengths, behaviors, values, and psychological essentials. Temperament is the basic motivating force that does not change throughout your lifetime. Your tem-perament influences your relationship compatibility, career choices, parenting style, leadership capacity, and relational skills. Traits that remain stable include core needs, fears, values, and relational preferences. Awareness of your tem-perament or blend of temperaments is the golden key to self-mastery and achievement.

Snapshot of Your TemperamentAn Adaptive Supporter is one of the rare members of “heart” tribe of the world. Heart tribe members are helping professionals in medicine, education, busi-ness, caregiving, or personnel work. With natural gifts like compassion,or see-ing the best in others, they are comfortable in roles like a peacemaker, an ar-biter, a caretaker, a negotiator, or counselor. They easily adapt to people and tasks. They tend to be overwhelmed by too much information and overloaded in a negative environment.

A supporter’s personal calling is to inspire and help others.

Their strengths include natural empathy that stems from a strong intuitive intel-ligence about people. They see a person’s potential and want to help them ar-rive. Supporters take a practical, cooperative approach to tasks and go with the flow.

Record Your ScoresINSTRUCTIONS: On the next page, record your percentage score for each temperament. You received these in an email after you completed the Parent Temperament Style Inventory.

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4 Core Parent Temperament Style SummariesAdaptive Supporter____________

Your parent temperament style is nur-turing and heart-focused. Your priority is emotional bonding and connection with children. You insure that your child’s self-esteem is healthy. Your top parenting skills are appreciating and listening. You advocate for children and adapt well to each child’s tem-perament. Your empathy offers com-fort. You approach parenting with a practical, logical approach coupled with an intuitive knowing about your children.

Creative Influencer ____________Your parent temperament style is per-missive in allowing children to explore environments and learn the rules as they go along. Your priority for children is that they be true to themselves and find their way through experiences and consequences. You are an easy-going parent, who encourages kids to play, have fun, push boundaries, be cre-ative, and explore interests. You ex-emplify caring about people, and you share and encourage those values in children.

Observant Thinker_____________Your parent temperament style is pragmatic and cognitive. You allow for logical consequences for a child’s ex-plorations and actions. Because you are not controlling, you expect children to be responsible for themselves. You encourage children to be strong indi-viduals in their expression and choices of activities. Your priorities for children are self-reliance and independence. Even as the cognitive voice of reason, you are a very affectionate parent, who fosters calmness in children.

Persistent Achiever____________Your parenting style is high in expecta-tions of children. You are strict in guid-ing children through accepting and achieving responsibility. Your parenting priority is that they do well and achieve wealth and success to be a contribut-ing member of society. You are a hands-on parent and cherish your chil-dren. You value family traditions, as well as family togetherness and stabili-ty. You prefer that your children have good memories of you.

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How To Interpret Your Scores1. The higher the score, the more this temperament influences how you think,

behave, and relate in general to people, environments, time, and stress, es-pecially as a parent.

2. If one or more of the next highest percentage score is within 12 percent of the strongest score, likely this secondary and/or third temperament also influ-ences your tendencies in how your think, behave, and relate.

3. Be sure to read about more about this temperament at http://coretempera-ment.com

4. When discussing a specific temperament or temperament traits, remember that core temperament traits are descriptive, not prescriptive.

Descriptive refers to assigning qualities or traits without judgment. Rather, descriptions of temperament traits explores how the person ex-presses, responds, reacts, relates, and how they approach life psycholog-ically and emotionally.

Knowledge of temperament traits can be predictive, but not prescrip-tive.

Prescriptive refers to rules or guidelines that are meant to be imposed for correct behavior. There is no “correct” in relation to core temperament. The qualities are adaptive.

Predictive refers to an already existing system or set of information from which actions or attitudes are most likely to occur. Temperaments can suggest from the genetic architecture certain preferences or ways to relate.

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Your Starring Parenting Role is Nurturer

YOU MODEL• Empathy• Emotional tenderness• Nurturing• Listening

PARENTING STRENGTHS• You are thoroughly involved in children’s lives throughout the life span. • You nurture a child’s healthy self-image and esteem.• You offer such profound love to support a child with enough strength to over-

come difficulties.• You prioritize the fulfillment of children’s emotional needs. • You want children to experience enrichment, and enjoy lessons in the arts,

sports, and music. • You are willing to adapt environment to the child’s temperament.• Your comforting, kind, and parent with a warm manner• Models a practical approach to goals or problems.

PARENTING MOTIVATOR • You are thoughtful about discipline according to your child’s temperament.• You empower children to aim for the stars and become their ideal self.• You offer comfort, compromise, and cooperation.• As your life is meaningful, so you want your children to find meaning in what

they do or study or experience. Help them find meaning!• You thrive on strong connections with people. Don’t isolate yourself as a par-

ent. Join groups, plan family get-togethers, and have some fun!

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PARENTING VALUES

CooperationTruthfulness

SecurityInner PeaceAppreciation

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PREFERENCESThe nurturing parent prefers harmony in the household. You share values with your children like

• Be cooperative: help others• Be practical: take your time and do it well • Be considerate: appreciate people• Solve problems: don’t argue about it• Be kind: treat others the way you would like to be treated • Think positively: stay balanced and happy

CHALLENGES• Not being real assertive poses the challenge to be ignored or not heard.• Not feeling secure or fearful poses the challenge of being too submissive or

sharing too much information or emotion with children. • Caring too much poses the challenge of being too involved in other’s activi-

ties. • Feeling stubborn or down poses the challenge of projecting feelings on to

children. • Being too tolerant poses the challenge of not setting effective boundaries with

family members. • Being overly accommodating in expectations with children poses the chal-

lenge of not being effective in discipline.

TO BE A LEADER AS A PARENT, YOU CAN• Be more assertive with children in explaining what you expect and when you

expect it. • Define rules and set boundaries for children to help them feel safe in what

they do.• When you share day dreams, make sure children know it is a dream in your

mind, and it is not a plan or a reality that is concrete….yet.

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Core TemperamentA strong foundation for parenting skills is knowing your core temperament, and from there, discerning how your temperament style influences your parenting.

Knowing yourself means that you are aware of your Core Temperament, and of the strengths, challenges and skills you need to develop to be a leader in your home and a nurturing parent. Knowing yourself means that you are aware of how you:

• Perceive and interact with the world• Deal with the environment• Respond to people• Identify your stress levels and manage stressors • Manage your thoughts • Deal with your emotions • Perceive your self worth • Clarify your values• Balance your life

The benefits of knowing yourself are numerous. First, you become clear on what you can offer as a parent. Your parenting values come first from your tem-perament. Then as you have children and grow as a person within your family, your values guide your choices and actions in how you raise your children.

When you go against your values or make parenting decisions that don’t feel right, that is your clue that you are working against your ingrained nature your temperament.

By acknowledging your natural talents, you identify how you parent naturally, and you enjoy your children so much more. By accepting your challenges in an honest way, you demonstrate to children how to accept their shortcomings. You establish an inner sense of presence that others define as charisma, warmth or empathy.

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Know Yourself First And Know Your Child Too

• In the ever-changing world of time, fast-paced living, over-commitment, and competing distractions for our attention, what remains stable?

• What internal barometer can we count on? • What is our measuring stick for consistency for our behavior and that of our

clients? “

Knowing Core Temperaments can answer these questions.

Core Temperament defines the four ways through which people perceive and in-teract with the world. The value of knowing your temperament or blends of tem-peraments, and that of your children, is that one parenting style does not fit all children any more than one diet works for all dieters.

Temperaments provide predictive value.You can predict how you will react when stressed. You have inherent values for how to parent and how you make decisions.You know what motivates you. Believe me, you’ll need self-motivation skills while parenting.

In this fast-paced world, you can count on your core temperament as the founda-tion and as your measure of success.

It is true that we interpret the world as we see it, through our eyes only, through the filters of our family, culture, education, peers, and the impact of stressful or traumatic events.

However, every human being has an internal architecture and structure for with which to start life. Research also supports the fact that our core temperament is fifty percent of our total personality, and we are born with it. It remains predictable through life, and, if you learn to control it, it is your anchor amidst life’s transitions.

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Our Core Temperament is influenced, shaped, and molded by family, peers, cul-ture, education, and the environment.

If you understand your innate style to interactions with people and the environ-ment, then you plan for and control your life in a safe, easy way. Your key to suc-cessful planning and managing stress and activity is to know your natural inclina-tions or tendencies.

Then, you can:

• Design your environment to suit your needs. • Plan ahead for stressful situations.

Know where to focus your energy efficiently. • Plan for the help you will need. • Be true to yourself and your temperament. • Use your gifts and talents accordingly.

You choose techniques for joyfully interacting in life, strategies that make you feel calmer, and happier, or help you think in the optimal fashion. You consider your wholeness in physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health because you know your responsibility is first to yourself, and ultimately, to your children.

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