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Summary: A Must Read for Parents
Review: Florence Littauer has written a book that has the potential to transform relationships. Her knowledge of personality types and how to deal with them will help you better understand not only your children but yourself as well.The author gives clear descriptions of the four personality types. Rather than stopping with a description, she goes on to share parenting ideas for each type of child. This is very helpful, but she goes further still! I found the most helpful sections to be those where the author spelled out how a parent with one personality type can get along with and bring out the best in a child of another personality. If you have children you just can't figure out, this book will help you.
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Summary: A Must Read for Parents
Review: Florence Littauer has written a book that has the potential to transform relationships. Her knowledge of personality types and how to deal with them will help you better understand not only your children but yourself as well. The author gives clear descriptions of the four personality types. Rather than stopping with a description, she goes on to share parenting ideas for each type of child. This is very helpful, but she goes further still! I found the most helpful sections to be those where the author spelled out how a parent with one personality type can get along with and bring out the best in a child of another personality. If you have children you just can't figure out, this book will help you.
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Summary: Necessary Read for Parents
Review: Having read Personality Plus and thoroughly enjoyed that, I bought "PP for Parents" as gift to my sister (and read it too). I'm single, but I suppose the book is really helpful for parents to understand their children better. How many times we hear parents say "I wish you're more like your brother!"? Every child is different and each should be treated differently accordingly. This book explains how they differ, and guides us on how to more effectively deal with it. Parents could also avoid unnecessary or even damaging reaction/treatment to the differences. Since the personality of an individual is innate, recognizing it in a child is easier. And critical. It is beneficial to start early in harnessing the potential - sharping the good side of it, and smothering the negative one. Make the best of the different personality. Emotional health developed during childhood has great impact throughout a person's life. I think it would be a loss not to read this book.
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Summary: This book will help you to be a better parent!
Review: I have four children, and they all have different personalities. This book has helped me to identify which personality the children fall under, then what I can do about it to build up their strengths and help them work on their weaknesses. Because I am a "Perfect Melancholy" as I parent I tend to expect perfection, the book warns against that and advises to ease up on my perfectionism. This is just one example, but the book is awsome. I have shared it with my friends and we all have had a great time taking the personality test to see which personality we are. If you want to understand your children better please get this book!! Why does your daughter always talk, talk, talk? And why does your son like to take the path of least resistance all the time? I highly recommend this book from one mom to another.
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Summary: File this book in the circular file.
Review: I have to depart from the rest of the folks and say I thought this book was a diasspointment. The woman who wrote it claims to be a Christian, but I didn't see any mention of the word
"sin" which is the root of all bad behavior. I will admit I dind't read the whole thing, it irritated me too much. So I did jump around alot. All the little stories are "cute," but we are doing our children a disservice if we say "you're sanguine, so of course you will be flighty and forgetful." This may be so, but we are still called by God to train up our children to His standard, not lower the standard so that each of our children can meet it in thier own "tempermental" style. For example "Melencholy Tyler is protective of his own space. He likes to get hugs from his parents, but is irritated if he things his older sister is hugging him too much. His sanguine sister "simply can't resist" giving her little brother hugs" This isn't a problem of different temperments, it's a sin problem on the part of both children. Brother is not putting others first and is not willing to show/accept love from sister. Sister is not putting others first, she isn't controlling a behavior that she knows is irritating to her brother. Mom and Dad can help both children be more like Jesus by teaching them that others are more important, that love overlooks an offense, etc. Why do I need to know that my kid is melancholy for that? I do believe that all kids have their unique stengths and weakness, but the root of bad behaviour is self love and self centerdness, not their temperment. As a final thought, I think I woudn't have been so offended by this book if the author hadn't been talking putting herself forth as a Christian. This kind of stuff is fine for those who don't know the Lord, it would probably even be very helpful. But for believers, we want our children to grow up depending on the Holy Spirit who guides them through knowledge of the scriptures.
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Summary: The best parenting book ever!
Review: If I was going to recommend a book for parents battling with their kids, this would be it! I wish I had read it before all the others. It explains so much about why my son does the things he does, and the best way to deal with his behaviour without totalling losing it with him. Great to be able to do the personality test for parents too. A must-have!
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Summary: The best parenting book ever!
Review: If I was going to recommend a book for parents battling with their kids, this would be it! I wish I had read it before all the others. It explains so much about why my son does the things he does, and the best way to deal with his behaviour without totalling losing it with him. Great to be able to do the personality test for parents too. A must-have!
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Summary: I COULDN'T PUT THIS BOOK DOWN
Review: It is insightful to find out we can tell personalities in babies. And knowing your own personality and how to interact with other personalities makes it so much easier to raise great grandchildren. Wish I knew this when my own children were growing up. It makes a big difference in the level of self confidence and self esteem as one raises children, especially during the formative years of birth to age 3.
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Summary: Understanding Grandchildren
Review: It is insightful to find out we can tell personalities in babies. And knowing your own personality and how to interact with other personalities makes it so much easier to raise great grandchildren. Wish I knew this when my own children were growing up. It makes a big difference in the level of self confidence and self esteem as one raises children, especially during the formative years of birth to age 3.
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Summary: I COULDN'T PUT THIS BOOK DOWN
Review: This book is EXCELLENT. Every parent needs to read it.
I have 5 children and this book has helped me so much to see
what makes my children different, and has enabled me to accept
them just as they are. Just one example-my third son has always seemed to be lazy. He is just not motivated to work. I used to worry that I was raising a lazy adult but this book showed me that he is a phlegmatic, and phlegmatics tend to be that way! They find the shortest way to do things and are unmotivated to get their work done. I now understand my little guy and why he is like he is-I can accept him as living according to his temperament. I could give several other examples.
This book is practical in that it lists the strengths and weaknesses of each temperament and gives ideas for parents on how to raise their children according to how they are. I loved that it pairs up the different combinations of parents and children.
I could go on and on but suffice it to say that I read the book in just a couple of days and learned so much that it's changed the way I relate to my children. I even learned much about me and also about my husband.
It's a fascinating, practical, life-changing book. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Now I'm off to read her book for adults, "Personality Plus". :)
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