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Summary: New Insights into So-Called Problem Children
Review: We recently had our son tested, and the tests were very helpful. What was more surprising is that the psychologist's evaluation/assessment seems to fit one of the types perfectly. We have already adjusted our approach signicantly, with results already apparent. What we thought was a stubborn, rude beligerant little boy, is actually a very sensitive feeler, who is actually very remorseful over innocent mistakes. By reading this book, parents may become more aware that what appears to be ADD, or a learning disability may be a minority personality type, or a child trying to "live out of type". It is fascinating to learn that a lot of your child's supposedly weird charecteristics are actually normal for him, and that he may just march to the tune of a different drummer.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: What a great book! I strongly recommend this book for all parents and teachers. Especially those involved with so-called learning disabilities like attention deficit disorder, which can simply be the manifestation of a child's natural temperament.I was already familiar with the MBTI/Jungian theory of temperament before I bought the book and suspected my son to be an "ENTP" because of his apparent preferences for extraversion, intuition-imagination, logic and divergent thinking. When I got the book in the mail and opened it up to ENTP I immediately read it to my husband and we were in hysterics. We've been calling him "The Negotiator," and the heading under ENTP was "Everything's Negotiable." There were about ten full pages on the ENTP temperament, from infancy up through the teen years. I'm also an ENTP and it rang true. It was simply amazing how true it all was. I now feel a bit more prepared in that I have an idea about what to expect in future years. Then we looked up ISTP, my husband's type, and read that. I said to him about certain parts, "you weren't like that, were you?" and he reply rather sheepishly, "well, actually, I was." Then he began to tell me stories I'd never heard before of him as a child. I just never pictured him hanging off the tops of cliffs. All in all, it was incredibly valuable for me to identify that my son has pretty much the same temperament as me, and it was probably even more invaluable for my husband to read about the temperament traits of an ENTP, since my husband is of a different type and would naturally tend to have different expectations of his son. I think he understands him a little better now.
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