How to best understand your child, temperament.
Knowing your child's temperament can help you capitalize on their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses!

A temperament parenting report based on the results of diagnosing over 1,000 children and their parents.
Understanding temperament is essential to addressing the challenges of parenting and fostering your child's innate potential.

“He’s just naturally like that.” This is what we often say when describing children.
But even we, as parents, don't really know what our children's temperament is like.
Even teachers who teach children closest to them and psychotherapists who treat children's minds say that temperament is very important because it is a child's innate characteristic, but there is a lack of proper understanding of temperament.
This gap arises because there is little research data on infant and toddler temperament.
Temperament has been discussed in personality psychology since ancient Greece, but there has been no case of examining the temperament of infants and toddlers by dividing it into detailed types.
This is because it is very difficult to organize the concepts of individual differences and uniqueness in temperament.
Therefore, this book will be a refreshing drink that will quench the thirst of parents and teachers who want to understand children's temperaments.


"Parenting Concerns? Temperament Parenting is the Answer!" is a comprehensive guide to temperament that allows parents, teachers, and experts to directly diagnose, analyze, and even coach temperament.
First, we clearly define the nine elements that make up temperament, and then classify temperament types based on data accumulated through numerous treatments and educational clinical trials, and explain them with examples.
To enable readers to accurately diagnose their children's temperaments, the book includes the SCTA temperament test, developed and certified by the author's own research institute. It also teaches how to analyze temperaments based on the test results and the most effective parenting methods for each type.
If you've ever wondered what your child's temperament is or how to raise them in a way that's right for them, this book will help you create a new parenting paradigm.

How well do you know your child? Having treated numerous children and counseled parents for many years, I've realized that parents, who should understand their children better than anyone else, often don't know much about them.
Most parents don't know what their child's strengths and weaknesses are, how they are manifesting, and how they will manifest in the future.
Even though we recognize the problem, we don't know what the core of the problem is.
As a result, there are many cases where parents worry and hesitate to make decisions at every moment of parenting, and are unable to respond appropriately.
Parents who struggle to overcome their anxiety often postpone the opportunity to explore their child's strengths and weaknesses to daycare centers, kindergartens, or counseling centers.
Moreover, out of concern for the child, they try to quickly correct the weaknesses.
They are worried that their child will be hated, suffer losses, or be harmed because of his or her weaknesses, so they want to resolve those issues quickly.
The more parents perceive that their child's shortcomings are similar to their own, the more they focus on their weaknesses.
I feel like my child's weaknesses are my fault as a parent, so I force my child to overcome his or her weaknesses quickly in order to relieve my guilt and self-reproach.
So worry breeds anxiety, anxiety breeds anger, and ultimately, it leads to aggression in the child.
To break this vicious cycle and become better facilitators, parents need to understand temperament.
Understanding your child's temperament can help you identify their strengths and complement their weaknesses by leveraging their unique strengths.
It is also a natural result that the quality of childcare is improving.

---From the "Header"

There was a three-year-old boy who couldn't speak, wouldn't make eye contact, was extremely sensitive to noise, was a picky eater, and would cry and swear all day long if he didn't like something.
Because this child had no communication at all, they called him 'autistic'.
But this child is not autistic.
He was a child with a very strong 'sensitive temperament' and high desires, and he expressed the high stress he felt in a state of dissatisfaction where things did not go his way through strong gestures.
After six months of therapy that met his high needs while reducing his sensitivity to stimuli, he became a speaking, smiling, and playful child.
What if we had diagnosed this child solely based on his behavior? We would have looked solely at the parents or the environment for the cause of the problem, failing to find an appropriate solution.
However, by understanding the characteristics of the child's temperament and providing therapeutic and parenting interventions that complement the weaknesses of the child's temperament, remarkable changes can occur in a short period of time.
Like this, most of the problems or difficulties that parents complain about with their children originate from the child's temperament.
The cause of the problem and the solution are already in the temperament.

---From "Why do we need to know temperament?"

Children have all nine temperament factors described above: activity, attention, regularity, persistence, responsiveness, sensitivity, accessibility, adaptability, and quality of mood.
It's not that some elements are present and others are absent, but rather that there are differences in the strengths and weaknesses of the nine temperament elements.
Therefore, depending on which of the temperamental elements a child possesses is more clearly revealed, they can be broadly divided into four temperament types: accommodative, inhibited, persistent, and sensitive.
In order to diagnose a child's temperament more carefully, this book divides the four temperament types of 'compliant, inhibited, persistent, and sensitive' into a total of 16 types based on high and low 'activity' and 'sociability'.
‘Activity’ is a criterion for the individual dimension of temperament, and ‘sociality’ is a criterion for the social dimension of temperament, which distinguishes children’s subtle individual characteristics and social features in more detail.
These 16 temperament types have characteristic shapes when represented graphically by quantifying the nine temperament factors.
---From "Four temperament types based on combination of temperament factors"

The reason we present a temperament test in this book is to help you understand your child accurately.
It is to help parents objectively look at their children and find the best parenting method for their children and solutions to problematic situations together.
As we work through temperament test questions, most parents are surprised to discover how little they know about their children.
I have seen it with my eyes, but I have never observed it properly.
For this reason, temperament testing requires parents to focus their attention on their child and observe him or her closely to evaluate him or her.
Just focus on your child.
There is no need to brag about the results of your test or feel jealous of other children's results.
There is no such thing as good temperament or bad temperament.
Also, we do not evaluate a child's abilities based on innate tendencies.
If temperament is not accurately tested and an accurate temperament assessment is not possible, the child's true temperament cannot be identified and developed.
Therefore, in order to accurately examine the temperament, please first examine the parents' hearts.

---「TEST.
From “Understanding Your Child’s Temperament Type”

In fact, the parenting style of a parent hides the parent's temperament and desires.
These desires are, on a personal level, each person's uniqueness.
But it's different when you're a parent.
Depending on how these parental desires align with the child's temperament, the child's needs may be deficient due to the parent's desires, and the child's weaknesses may be negatively influenced by the parenting process rather than being learned.
As adults, parents have a responsibility to their children's needs.
Therefore, you must distinguish between your own needs and the role of your parents.
While loving and acknowledging your child's needs and unique temperament, you must first train yourself to be in harmony with your child and accompany him or her.

---From "Meeting of Parenting Styles & Child Temperament Types"