How Would You Characterize Your Child's Personality

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1. Describe two specific examples of changes in your child's behavior at age 4 that seem to stem from growth in cognitive and language ability since the period of infancy (e.g., improvements in symbolic thinking, reasoning, knowledge of the world, theory of mind)

3. How would you characterize your child's personality? Would you say that your child is primarily overcontrolled, undercontrolled or resilient? Support your argument

4. What cultural practices are you practicing with your child to help her/him learn about your family's cultural and ethnic identity

5. What have you enjoyed most about raising your child up until this point? What are you proud of? What parenting decisions do you wish you could go back and change? Why

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