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Quiz to Test Parents about Child Personality Traits

Quiz to Test Parents about Child Personality Traits

Your Child Has Personality!

This short personality quiz is excerpted from Delight in Your Child’s Design by Laurie Winslow Sargent, and was contributed by Kim Miller, Laurie’s editor at Tyndale House.

In some ways, determining your child’s personality is an inexact science.She is likely a blend of more than one personality type. A child’s relationships and experiences also influence the way she behaves.

Still, it is helpful to get some sense of why your child acts the way she does. Try to answer the following questions to see if you can discern a pattern in your child’s behavior and help you understand and identify some of his or her strongest personality traits:

1. You can truthfully say, “I’d be a millionaire if only I could bottle and sell my child’s . . .”

a. optimism.
b. persistence.
c. kindness.
d. confidence.

2. Your son keeps you up until 2 a.m. the night before his school’s science fair because:

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Parenting by Faith

Parenting by Faith

WELCOME!

What does it mean to parent by faith?

To me, it means to have:

FAITH in our ability to learn how to parent well.
FAITH in our kids and joy in the personalities God has given them.
FAITH in God and His ability to help us raise healthy, productive, joy-filled and faith-filled kids.

I sincerely hope I can help you do just that, and that we learn from each other along the way!

Laurie 

5-Minute-Fun with your child: Shadow Stomp

5-Minute-Fun with your child: Shadow Stomp
5-Minute-Fun with your child: Shadow Stomp

Photo by Elisa Sargent, 2010

5-Minute-Fun: Shadow Stomp

When you’re out on a walk together or your preschooler is riding his trike as you walk,  he may lose steam before you can get back home.

Boost his motivation and energy by saying, “Don’t you dare run over my shadow!”

When he does (of course!) , scream in agony or moan.

An alternative is to play shadow tag. Try stomping on each others shadows before you can run to a place where your shadows are hidden in the shade of a tree or car.

It’s amazing how an kid who cries “Carry me, Mom, I’m too tired!” and slumps to the ground to demonstrate his exhaustion is suddenly energized by a game like this, then can easily make it all the way back home!

Enjoy the Spring weather . . . now that it’s finally here!

By the way: take a close look at the photo above. My 13-yr-old daughter photographed her friends spelling out the word LOVE with heart-shaped shadows below.   How cool is that?

She loved to run over my shadow when she was little!

Laurie

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Note: This 5-Minute-Fun was excerpted from:  Time to Get Out? Or Stay In!, Chapter 13, p. 193 in The Power of Parent-Child Play (2003, Tyndale, 2005 WinePress), copyright Laurie Winslow Sargent.