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Summary: If You Buy Just One Child-rearing Book, Make It This One
Review: Parenthood takes a lot of patience and you'll find this book provides insights you need to conjure that patience and understanding of your little one. If children came with an owner's manual, I imagine it would read very much like this book, which is extremely helpful in understanding your child's personality, what you can expect from that personality, and how your personality affects decisions in child rearing. All kids are different, and the Tiergers do an excellent job of catagorizing personalities to help you make good decisions about how to best discipline and teach your child. You will avoid a lot of parenting mistakes, heartaches, and frustration with this new knowledge. You'll view your childhood in a new light. You'll have fun identifying the personality traits of yourself, your spouse, and family members. "That's why they're that way" will become a common thought as you delve into this book and find the personailties of your loved ones emerge.
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Summary: A Great Resource for MBTI and Children
Review: The majority of books on MBTI are meant for adults and the profiles are based on "adult types", it's about time someone made one that's focused on kids. I recommend it to any teachers or counselors who want to use Typing in Pre-K through High School. Of course it's also a good book for any teenagers who want information on why they "act the way they do" now or who are constantly typing their friends (*Sigh* I admit, I'm a myers-briggsoholic). Get the book and let's hope they'll make more like it.
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Summary: A must have for ALL parents!
Review: This book has been a very big help for my wife and I. With the easy to follow guidelines, we've been able to understand our son much better. The book lists the different personality types as they age from babies to teenagers. It has even helped me understand my childhood and the troubles I had as a teenager. If only I had known my personality type then. Do yourself and your kids a huge favor, BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: A Thinker's perspective
Review: This book is good for giving parents insight into their child. However, it does make a couple of assumptions - first that a child is born with an intact personality and second that the personality cannot be changed. Also, the authors make a few statements about disciplining that not all personalities are apt to agree with (in favor of permissiveness, which gives me the impression that they are Feelers, or at least not Traditionalists). My advice to parents of Thinking-oriented children, when trying to teach them tactfulness, is to remember the child's thicker skin and make a joke of it. My mother broke me of it by simply being tactless right back, and then smiling at me afterwards to see if I'd get it. For instance, in response to a back-handed compliment, she'd simply reply "Thanks Jordan. You're not very bright, but you sure give great compliments!" She never got mad, but she didn't just accept it either. As logical as I was, I would figure it out and then laugh. And the way she worded it made clear that she didn't mean the insult (although she didn't mean the compliment either). Remember that these kids don't need to be handled with "kid gloves" and Feeler parents have a tendency to want to stick with a gentle approach, afraid of hurting a kid who is not that easily hurt. Be straight with them.
Also, I'll bet a good way to teach Feeler children objectivity is to begin explaining logic to them early, as it applies to topics that interest them. NOT as it applies to them personally. Not yet. The sceintific method is a good start, with the use of a toy chemistry set. Then, as they begin to learn and enjoy using logic, ask them if it's possible that a person might be mad, but not necessarily be reasonable.
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Summary: Definitely worth reading!
Review: This book is very well written (not to say it is free of typos, but...); it is definitely time for a personality-taylored child-rearing book. The descriptions are very accurate, and the suggestions for parenting the children are right on. I do believe, however, that there is a fatal error in the artist's tendency to focus on a positive aspect of some children's type and a negative aspect of others'. The pictures/quotes do not seem to underline the idea that all children have something positive to contribute. The Introverted Percievers seemed to fare the worst. Parents of an ESTJ may be put at ease from a picture of a smiling kid wearing a halo, with a quote focusing on his tendency to follow rules rather than his tendency to boss others kids around. But parents of INTPs may not like the picture of a rebel. And they may have purchased the book wondering why their child is so curious, but until seeing the picture, never given a thought that his questions might be a sign of disrespect. If children are equal but different, the pictures should focus on the positive attributes of each type.
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Summary: Worthwhile
Review: This book takes the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and applies it to parenting. The book is supposed to help parents identify their child's personality type, so that they can then parent them in a way that best suits the child's needs as well as the parents'.I like the fact that the book shows that children are individuals, and that a one size fits all approach to parenting tends not to work. The book could really give a parent insight into a child who is vey different from the way the parent is (say, a very extroverted mom or dad who can't quite understand why his/her child would rather read a book or play with a chemistry set than go play with a group of kids). It can also help the parent understand why some discipline techniques that work really well with one child completely fail with another. The book talks about all these sorts of issues - school, discipline, overall behaviour, etc. The problem I have with the book is that I think is difficult to identify some children's preferences, particularly in the more complex areas of a person's type. It's rather easy to tell if someone is an extravert vs. an introvert. Other things, like sensing vs intuitive, or judging vs. perceiving are more difficult to assess in a child. I found it hard to determine the type of the child I was thinking of. Where the book is more useful is knowing your own type, and looking at how your child might respond to it. Although I'm not convinced that the Myers-Briggs Type Indictor is a valid instrument to use with children, I do believe this book can still give parents and other adults who interact with kids a good broad base of understanding of how temperment is displayed in children. For that alone, the book is worth looking at. I would reccommend getting the book out of the library and skimming a few chapters to see if you like the book and think it will be useful to you before you spend the money to purchase it outright.
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Summary: Great insights for parenting and personal growth.
Review: This is a valuable addition to anyone's parenting or Myers-Briggs library. Even if you don't have children, this book can help you understand your own personality through memories of early (less learned) behavior. It includes descriptions of what to expect at different ages from children of different types, and guidelines for helping them grow and learn to cope with the world.
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Summary: An excellent parenting book
Review: This is a wonderful book. All parents should own a copy of this marvolus piece of writing. Get a copy today; you'll be glad that you did. This book will help parents understand their kids a whole lot better. I definately recommend this book all the way. Another plus is that the author has writen 4 other books, so she has a lot of experience with personality type, and she knows what she's talking about.
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Summary: Definitely worth reading!
Review: Understanding personality types is like taking a shortcut through life. What do I mean by this? Well, you can save yourself a lot of time and energy when you understand your own personality, and the personalities of the people you interact with. This book provides the information needed to understand adults as well as kids, and explains why some tactics work great on some people and not others. Get this book to understand your kids, but get ready to realize some things about yourself in the process. You may or may not like what you discover about yourself or your kids, nevertheless, you will have the key to unlock the door to a whole new world of understanding yourself and others. If you choose, you can change the way you handle situations that usually give you problems. It makes life easier to know what to do. What could be better than that?
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Summary: Useful Information
Review: Understanding personality types is like taking a shortcut through life. What do I mean by this? Well, you can save yourself a lot of time and energy when you understand your own personality, and the personalities of the people you interact with. This book provides the information needed to understand adults as well as kids, and explains why some tactics work great on some people and not others. Get this book to understand your kids, but get ready to realize some things about yourself in the process. You may or may not like what you discover about yourself or your kids, nevertheless, you will have the key to unlock the door to a whole new world of understanding yourself and others. If you choose, you can change the way you handle situations that usually give you problems. It makes life easier to know what to do. What could be better than that?
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