Title: Understanding Temperament: PersistenceThe Center for Parenting Education
Headings: Understanding Temperament: Persistence
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Child Development:
Understanding Temperament: Persistence
Temperament Matters
What is Persistence?
How can you determine your children’s degree of persistence?
Highly Persistent Children
Less Persistent Children
Things Parents Can Do

Content: For example, help them learn to compromise and be more flexible. Help your children to either let things go (high persistence) or stick with things longer (low persistence). Do not engage in battles with your children when they are locked-in or frustrated. They need you to take charge and help them find ways to get calm. Learn to work together. Understand how your own temperament, including your degree of persistence, fits or does not fit with your children’s temperament and create strategies to help each other. Identify and value your children’s unique temperament. Help them to understand the value of their uniqueness. Send messages to your children that help them to feel good about who they are, such as: “You are independent and capable.”