Have you ever worked with a child who is always active, has more energy than they truly know what to do with, while having LOTS of ideas on what they can do with all that energy and when? In other words, they are driven to be in charge, they have the ideas and the energy to [...]
Have you ever had a child who wanted to know every detail of everything they were involved with? If you are the one putting braces on them, as many of my readers are, they pepper you with questions from the moment they arrive in your office until the door closes behind them. These children just LOVE [...]
Have you ever had a child deliver their TEN good reasons and talk you into something that, deep inside you, your better judgement was screaming, "NO!" Whether they were your own child or your patient or a relative... doesn't matter. These children have a gift of being able to persuade. As we go through the Adult [...]
High D-Style children have been described as “a tornado looking for a place to happen”. Their drive to control as well as their high energy level influence every day of their lives. As we go through the Adult to Child Relationship series, the combination we will discuss this week is the High S-Style Adult with the [...]
For years, I questioned my effectiveness as a mother, especially with my two younger children. If any of you are parents, or have a close relationship with several children from the same family, you will no doubt agree with me that they can be vastly different from each other. And just when you start to figure [...]
I confess - two of my children have to continually remind me of this... because my positive enthusiasm often goes against their quieter nature. In fact, this blogpost may be more important for me to remember than any others I’ve shared so far. As we go through the Adult to Child Relationship series, the combination we [...]
