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Raising Your Spirited Child Rev Ed (Revised)

by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

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A temperament-based guide to understanding intense, sensitive children

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A temperament-based guide to understanding intense, sensitive children

Mary Sheedy Kurcinka frames “spirited” behavior as temperament rather than a character flaw, examining traits such as intensity, sensitivity, persistence, perceptiveness, and difficulty with change. The revised guide pairs that reframing with practical family situations, including tantrums, power struggles, meals, sibling conflict, bedtime, holidays, and school. It also turns attention toward the parent’s own temperament, presenting a four-step approach for planning and responding to recurring challenges. Real-life examples and a focus on replacing negative labels give the book a constructive framework for navigating behavior that is often described as difficult or strong-willed.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents and caregivers of children with intense, sensitive, persistent, or change-averse temperaments
  • Families seeking strategies for recurring conflicts around routines, school, meals, or bedtime
  • Adults interested in temperament-focused parenting approaches

Themes

Child temperamentPositive labelingParent-child dynamicsFamily routinesPower struggles

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Book overview

Newly revised, featuring the most up-to-date research, effective strategies, and real-life stories

The spirited child often called "difficult" or "strong-willed" possesses traits we value in adults yet find challenging in children. Research shows that spirited kids are wired to be "more" by temperament, they are more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and uncomfortable with change than the average child. In this revised edition of the award-winning classic, voted one of the top twenty books for parents, Kurcinka provides vivid examples and a refreshingly positive viewpoint. Raising Your Spirited Child will help you: understand your child's and your own temperamental traits discover the power of positive rather than negative labels cope with the tantrums and power struggles when they do occur plan for success with a simple four-step program develop strategies for handling mealtimes, sibling rivalry, bedtimes, holidays, and school, among other situations"

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