Learn how to effectively communicate with your young children so they listen to and feel heard by you. Develop communication tools by applying insight into your child’s world through understanding child development, individual temperament, the role of empathy and responsive listening.
Wendy Manning is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Bowling Green State University. She is the Co-Director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research and the Associate Director of the Center for Family Demographic Research. She received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a family demographer with a research emphasis on union formation and stability and relationships among adolescents as well as adults. She is the co-principal investigator on NIH funded grant, Counting Families: Household Matrices with Multiple Family Members, as well as funded projects on young adult and teen dating relationships and the meaning of cohabiting unions in the U.S. She has served as the President of the Association of Population Centers, Vice-President of the Population Association of America, and the Chair of the American Sociological Association Population Section.
Pat Tanner Nelson
Professor and Extension Specialist, University of Delaware
Dr. Pat Tanner Nelson focuses on parent education and support, childhood obesity prevention, family stress management, and work/family integration. Collaborating with federal, state, and community organizations, Pat strives to build research-based education into the broad continuum of resources needed by families today. Pat is co-PI for eXtension Just in Time Parenting, a national interactive Internet resource that strives to bring high quality, research-based information to families at the time it can be most useful and make the biggest difference in their lives. Follow-up evaluations show that Just in Time Parenting is useful to all parents; the greatest impact is with those who are youngest, poorest and least educated.
B-DI is a project started in 1996 to promote understanding of behavioral individuality among parents and professionals. The B-DI website is intended as a clearinghouse for research and practical information about temperamental characteristics to be used by parents, students, professionals and others who have an interest in behavioral individuality. Resources include temperament questionnaires and scoring software for use with children and adults as well as books and a newsletter on dealing with 'high maintenance' and 'spirited' children.
