Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Labels: temperament / The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems

Whenever a new mom or mom-to-be asks for my book recommendations I always recommend both Babywise and The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems . Baby Whisperer goes along with Babywise wonderfully and I pull from both books when creating my children's daily routines. Something I love about The Baby Whisperer (Tracey Hogg) is that her book goes into a lot of detail. My sister-in-law actually is more of a "Baby Whisperer" parent than a "Babywise" one. I lean more towards Babywise with most of my parenting, but draw a lot from The Baby Whisperer as well. One concept I really appreciate from The Baby Whisperer is about temperaments. Knowing and understanding your baby's temperament helps when parenting them. Different personalities require different approaches when it comes to parenting. I believe firmly in parenting my children equally, but how one child responds to a certain method may differ from the way their sibling responds to the same met...

Baby's Temperament

Thursday, July 9, 2009

As I mentioned before, I have really enjoyed the book The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems. This is my second of three posts I plan on doing that cover my favorite topics in the book. This one is all about temperament! I found it interesting that Hogg talks about baby's emotional lives and how our emotional makeup, for the most part, is predetermined through genes and brain chemistry . She defines temperament as: the raw material that babies possess when they come into the world, also referred to as personality, nature or disposition. She says it affects how they eat, sleep, and react to the world around them. Here are the five different temperaments she discusses: 1. Angel: This is the personality we all hope our babies have! It's a dream child who easily adapts to their environment and to whatever changes you throw at them. This baby rarely cries and when they do it's easy to tell why they are crying. They are very easygoing and even-tempered. If...

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