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Summary: I'm so relieved!
Review: I was so relieved to read this book and clearly see my child! My husband and I were at our "wits end!" We felt like we did something wrong, we didn't understand her! Now I know she is an INTJ. Not many of them around, unique and intellectually smart, and 'always right'. I reccommend this to every parent!
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Summary: One Important Tool for the Parental Toolbox
Review: It is hard to underestimate the value of understanding personality type for developing effective business, spouse, peer, and parent-child relationships. I would speculate that many family conflicts are due to different personality types not being able to communicate with one another, or a child not fitting the behavior model established by the parents or siblings. Still, this is only one tool in the parental toolbox. Personality type should not be the only tool used, it doesn't mean that the tools of common sense and tradition are totally thrown out the window, yet it is a very useful tool and one that many parents are not aware of. If you are not familiar with personality type, this book serves as a great introduction to understanding both your own and your child's, and may well be the first of a number of books you explore in this area of psychology. If you already have some knowledge about personality type (such as having read 'Please Understand Me II' by David Keirsey), it is still worth picking up a copy of this book. You will find the specific examples and descriptions of how personality type manifests itself in children at different ages to be helpful and insightful.
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Summary: One Important Tool for the Parental Toolbox
Review: It is hard to underestimate the value of understanding personality type for developing effective business, spouse, peer, and parent-child relationships. I would speculate that many family conflicts are due to different personality types not being able to communicate with one another, or a child not fitting the behavior model established by the parents or siblings. Still, this is only one tool in the parental toolbox. Personality type should not be the only tool used, it doesn't mean that the tools of common sense and tradition are totally thrown out the window, yet it is a very useful tool and one that many parents are not aware of. If you are not familiar with personality type, this book serves as a great introduction to understanding both your own and your child's, and may well be the first of a number of books you explore in this area of psychology. If you already have some knowledge about personality type (such as having read 'Please Understand Me II' by David Keirsey), it is still worth picking up a copy of this book. You will find the specific examples and descriptions of how personality type manifests itself in children at different ages to be helpful and insightful.
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Summary: we're grateful and inspired to read the reader's comments
Review: It is more meaningful to me, and to my partner Paul, than we can express to read the comments written by readers of our book, NURTURE BY NATURE. As parents we know how frustrating, exciting, rewarding, and challenging it is to try each day to be a good parent. Whatever helps us to better understand and nurture our children is worthy of consideration. We know that understanding our children's types really does help us love, honor, respect, protect, encourage, inspire, and guide them so they can grow into the people they were meant to be. As we nurture our children by their natures, we shape a generation of more tolerant, respectful, responsible, and loving people. It's an honor and a priviledge to share their lives for these short years. Enjoy every minute of this incredible journey called parenting. And thanks for reading our book!
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Summary: Well written -- easy to read in brief spurts
Review: Just what I was looking for: a guide to my children's personalities that offers insights just where my own blind spots are. Concise and well-written, but not facile. I appreciated the organization: an overview to skim, then brief profiles, then longer profiles punctuated with short stories of real children and followed by lists of ways you can support your own child. Good layout, with bulleted lists and plenty of white space. (Can anyone with young children plop down to read dense text for uninterrupted hours? Not me.) As for parenting advice, it is right on. I love the underlying premise that we are all made differently, but in worthy ways.
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Summary: Great Tool
Review: Like all parenting/advice books, you have to pick/use the parts that make the most sense to you...and this is one that I've gotten the most out of, by far. The helpful hints for how to work with kids, at various age levels, based on personality types, are VERY useful. With one child like myself, and another very much the opposite, this book has been especially helpful in not only appreciating how/why they are different, but how to work with them accordingly, instead of just based on my own type...VERY INSIGHTFUL, WITH CONCRETE, USEABLE SUGGESTIONS.
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Summary: A book EVERY parent AND TEACHER should read
Review: My children have all graduated from high school and are on their paths into adulthood, but my biggest struggle through their primary school years were how teachers-----not all of them, but more than 1/2 of them-----expected every child to enjoy learning and contribute to class sessions animatedly, vocally, opinionatedly, artisticly, and be organized, self-starters, imaginative, detail oriented, etc., etc., etc. This book explains that each child----as well as any adult---has their own personality makeup and that's the way God has made them. Some children aren't vocal or artistic or self-starters or detail oriented and never will be no matter how often they're ridiculed or put in time-out or made to feel inadiquat. It's time for me to get off of my soapbox now, but this is a wonderful book and I recommend everyone to read it. It'll make you understand that a child...as well as any human being...has a way that they react and for any of us not to take reactions so personally...............after all, that's their personality ;-}
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Summary: Fun to read and extremely enjoyable and helpful
Review: Not only did I enjoy the information on personality types of children and how to best encourage and support them, I loved reading about my husband's and my types, as well. We had a lot of "ah-hah!" moments reading this book. I highly recommend it to any parent who wants to nurture and appreciate their child for who they are.
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Summary: Fun to read and extremely enjoyable and helpful
Review: Not only did I enjoy the information on personality types of children and how to best encourage and support them, I loved reading about my husband's and my types, as well. We had a lot of "ah-hah!" moments reading this book. I highly recommend it to any parent who wants to nurture and appreciate their child for who they are.
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Summary: some bad ideas
Review: Okay, I admit I am an INFP, so you can ignore the rest of my review since I'm so irrational. But I can't help but see the big picture of their suggestions for parenting these different "types" of kids. With Thinkers, parents should sit back and hope that their children learn manners on their own (lest parents be thought of as irrational). With Feelers, the kid was already born diplomatic, so parents don't need to teach the child manners. I don't think it's a good idea to encourage parents to forego teaching children diplomacy because this is supposedly a skill children are "born with".
I also have to view the descending "functions" with skepticism. For instance, I am an INFP, so my primary function is Feeling and Secondary function is iNtuition. My least available function is logic, even though this would be my primary function if I was an INTP. Pardon my ignorance, but this is illogical. If I was more Extraverted OR more of a Judger (ENFP or INFJ), I would suddenly, either way, be less of a Feeler and more iNtuitive. But, strangely, if I was more Extraverted AND more of a Judger (ENFJ), I would be no less of a Feeler and no more iNtuitive than I am now. How is this neurologically possible? Apparently, neither extraversion nor orderliness alone makes the kid more creative. They have to be extraverted AND unorderly, or introverted AND orderly. Furthermore, if I was low on the Feeling orientiation, Feeling would be both my primary and least available function, and Thinking would be both my primary and least available function. If anybody has ever met such an irrational but super-logical character, please let me know. Otherwise, I will have to assume that such a temperament is impossible.
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