This can lead to impatience and misunderstanding of the needs of the child. Adults need to create child-rearing environments that recognize each child's temperament while encouraging more adaptive functioning. Permissive or authoritarian parenting is often associated with poor emotional regulation. For a child who is very intense, this could result in aggressive behavior. On the other hand, research indicates that children who are encouraged in prosocial behaviors by supportive parents are more sympathetic and sensitive to the feelings of others.
Preschoolers seem more task oriented when their mothers provide positive support.
However, research shows that aggressive parents often report their children are aggressive. Parents can strongly influence how their children learn to adapt their temperament to their environment. While temperament traits may exist throughout the lifetime, how they are expressed and modified is dependent on the interactions with significant adults, life experience, and the child's world. Parents need information on temperament. They need to know how their temperament, parenting style and the home environment influence a child's temperament and his ability to adapt his temperament to his world.