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Expert Profile: Sharon Crandall

Expertise:  Behavior and learning challenges are usually caused by personality traits such as Restlessness, High Physical, Low Concentration, Wide Tolerance (spaciness), Force (anger), Aggressive, plus others. I can help in either area.
25 years experience working with families, teaching them how to work with traits so they work for you, rather than against you. As mother of seven grown children and grandmother of 19, I have seen first hand the beauty of recognizing talents and potential in a child who is difficult to raise. I could not have raised my last daughter, who had a very strong personality, without this knowledge. Besides working with families, I have worked with individuals and businesses. The challenges are always the same--learning how to work with your own traits, plus learning how to handle trait differences between yourselves and others.

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What do you like about this subject?  The most wonderful thing is teaching you that your child's challenges are really his gifts in disguise. Each trait has both a positive and negative expression; therefore a positive expression is possible with each negative behavior. This changes the attitude of the whole family.
What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?  The more people I work with, the more I learn about traits and how to work with them more effectively. I hope, through my books, teaching, and consulting, to help everyone celebrate each person's uniqueness, create better understanding of self and others, and learn valuable skills in effectively handling traits in themselves and others.
Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:  Applied Personality Science was actually developed in the thirties, forties, and fifties, but did not go widespread because of the trend toward psychotherapy, which had its basis in damage done from the environment. A.P.S. shows that about 80% of behavior is genetic-based and gives us choice over our behavior.
Something controversial or provocative about this subject  There are those who benefit from keeping our children on medication. Unfortunately, that puts pressure on parents to medicate their children. Understanding behavoral traits gives parents an alternative to drugs, more beneficial to the children, but not very popular with those who benefit otherwise.
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Thanks! I'll check it out and get back to ya
(bud on 06/01/08)
A very nice response. Thank you so much.
(sharon gregory on 03/10/08)
great, thanks so much for the help and advice. really informative.
(Jessica on 01/03/08)
WOW. You are SOOOO right!!!! I've been crying thinking I would be on the street w/out my mom's $ help and I might actually be better off if it weren
(Kristine on 12/09/07)
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Recent Answers from Sharon Crandall
2008-06-01  mentally restless Dear Bud, Yes, I sure do. go to www.neurogenesis-inc.com/58357 and you will find a product called neu beCalm'd. It is great. I highly recommend it. It is nutritional and feeds the brain to hep balance...
2008-05-02  ADHD 3 year old Dear Sue, I really want to help you and spend some time with these issues. I am changing computers and have to go right now. Please hang in there until I can really address these issues. Just to make...
2008-05-01  Adderall...Performance enhancing? Dear Daniel, I want to help you but I am just now changing computers and will be our of commission for a day or so. Please write me again and I will help you. If you can't through to me on all experts...
2008-04-26  sleep regression Dear Kiersty, First of all, did you get a second opinion on his condition? Before I put a child on serious medication I would certainly have several doctors look at him and give their opinion. Secondly...
2008-04-08  MY DAUGHTER IS ALSO HAVING MELTDOWNS Dear John, I am so glad you wrote to me as there are some things that are very important for you to know. First of all, the frontal lobes of a child's brain does not fully develop until around age...
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