Parenting with Temperament in Mind: Raising Resilient and Confident Tweens

A child's temperament often includes individual differences in emotional tendencies, emotional intensity, and the ability to manage attention and behavior. These factors interact with their relationships with parents, teachers, and peers and can impact how they deal with challenges and navigate the elementary and middle school years. Parenting with a child's temperament in mind allows parents to respond effectively to big emotions and challenging behaviors by creating a supportive, consistent environment.

Parents play an important role in children's positive development by providing the right balance of guidance, structure, expectations, and autonomy. This interactive session will help parents better understand their child’s temperament and how it relates to structure, positive discipline, and emotional needs. Together, we’ll explore practical strategies for building supportive routines, setting clear and consistent boundaries, and responding in ways that foster emotional regulation, resilience, and connection.

What can you expect?

• Develop a deeper understanding of how your child’s behavior is shaped by their temperament and how it interacts with their relationships.

• Learn practical strategies for creating supportive routines, setting clear and consistent boundaries, and responding in ways that nurture emotional regulation and resilience.

• Strengthen your ability to foster connection with your tween while guiding behavior toward positive, long-term outcomes.

Details

What: This interactive session will help parents better understand their child’s temperament and how it connects to structure, positive discipline, and emotional needs. Together, we’ll explore practical strategies for building supportive routines, setting clear and consistent boundaries, and responding in ways that foster emotional regulation, resilience, and connection.

Who: The presentation and discussions will be tailored for parents and caregivers of children aged 5-13 years. Participants attend without children.

When: Thursday, May 28, 2026, from 6 – 7:30 pm

Where: Broadview Library, 12755 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle, WA 98133

Cost: This event is free for attendees thanks to our generous PEPS donors and supporters, who make it possible for PEPS to offer events with no fees to our community. Please consider showing your support for PEPS and make a gift online.

Event Accessibility and Accommodations

We are pleased to provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter upon request to ensure our event is accessible to all attendees. Please email us at [email protected] by May 5, 2026, if you need an ASL interpreter or additional accommodations that would help you engage in this event.

Questions? Call PEPS at (206) 547-8570 or email us at [email protected].

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Questions? Call PEPS at (206) 547-8570 or email us at [email protected].

Dr. Liliana Lengua will lead our in-person presentation.

Liliana Lengua, Ph.D., is UW’s Maritz Family Foundation Professor of Psychology and has directed the Center for Child and Family Well- Being (CCFW) since its founding in 2011. A child clinical psychologist, she studies the effects of adversity on children and examines risk and protective factors that contribute to children’s resilience or vulnerability. Her research has focused on the contributions of children’s temperament, coping, and parenting in contributing to children’s responses to adversity.

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