October 23rd Meeting

The speaker at our next meeting will be Ray Lincoln, who will be speaking on "Parenting with Love and Understanding."

On his website, Ray states, "Parenting is the most complex task we humans engage in. It can challenge, thrill, encourage, frustrate, and confuse you — all in less than a day! However, it can be made enjoyable and much simpler if only we will learn how our children feel on the inside when they act, or choose not to act. Understanding the different temperaments will help you meet your child’s urgent and deep emotional needs."

Ray has provided an Adult Temperament Key and a Child Temperament Key (for each of your children) in advance of his presentation. (Right-click to download or save to your computer.)

If you didn't receive a copy of these documents at today's meeting (or if you need an additional copy), we were advised that we should each print and fill these out prior to the meeting and then bring them to the October 23rd meeting with you. This way, you can already know what your child(ren)'s temperaments are and have a head start during his presentation.

Ray also has some additional FREE Downloadable Resources on his site that you may be interested in.

How to Observe Your Child and Prepare Yourself for the Child Temperament Key - This handy guide will help you to observe the actions of your child that will reveal his/her preferences. Our four areas of preferences are the indicators of our personal urges created by our temperaments. Because our young children cannot answer the questions themselves and lack sufficient life experience, we rely on the parents' observations of the child's actions.

Our temperament's urges produce preferences that result in consistent and identifiable actions. We can then identify the child's temperament through observation of these actions which indicate their preferences and from which we can detect the urges of temperament.

How to Identify the Temperaments of Others - This handy, quick reference will give you a very general and preliminary guide to understanding people you come in contact with. It is not intended to "assess" a person's temperament, only to give you the clues for a cursory estimate that further interaction will confirm or refute. However, it can be helpful in fostering more congenial and productive relationships in almost any setting.