Nurture by Nature: Understand Your Child's Personality Type - And Become a Better Parent - Softcover

D. Tieger, Paul; Barron-Tieger, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316845132 ISBN 13: 9780316845137

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark, 1997

Synopsis

"A remarkable tool for relating to children" (Booklist), this essential parenting guide shows how to use Myers-Briggs personality types (MBTI) to better understand and bond with your child and become the best parent possible.

Every parent knows that children, even babies, have distinct personalities. Any parent with more than one child is probably well aware of how different from each other children, even siblings, can be. So it's only natural that the parenting strategies that work with one child may be less effective with another child. How can you be sure that your nurturing is well suited to your child? With this one-of-a-kind parenting guide, you can use Myers-Briggs analysis - a powerful and well-respected psychological tool - to understand your child better and become a more effective parent.

In Nurture by Nature you'll learn:

• Which of 16 distinctly different types best matches your child's personality and how this personality type affects your child in each of the three stages of development - preschool, school age, and adolescence
• How other parents, whose experiences are recounted in scores of case studies, deal with a wide array of challenging situations you may encounter: reining in a preschooler whose boundless energy constantly gets him into trouble, communicating with a child who keeps her thoughts and feelings secret, understanding an adolescent who seems not to care that he is forever losing things (his homework, his baseball cap, his keys), broadening the horizons of a child who resists trying anything new or unfamiliar...
• And how you can adapt your parenting style to your child's type - and get better results when communicating, supporting, motivating, and disciplining.

Whether your child is a tantrum-prone toddler, a shy third-grader, a rebellious teen, or somewhere in between, Nurture by Nature will give you the power to understand why children are the way they are - and to become the best parent you can be.

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From the Back Cover

Every parent knows that children, even babies, have distinct personalities. Any parent with more than one child is probably well aware of how different from each other children, even siblings, can be. So it's only natural that the parenting strategies that work with one child may be less effective with another child. How can you be sure that your nurturing is well suited to your child? With this one-of-a-kind parenting guide, you can use Personality Type analysis - a powerful and well-respected psychological tool - to understand your child better and become a more effective parent. In Nurture by Nature you'll learn which of 16 distinctly different types best matches your child's personality; how this personality type affects your child in each of the three stages of development - preschool, school age, and adolescence; how other parents, whose experiences are recounted in scores of case studies, deal with a wide array of challenging situations you may encounter: reining in a preschooler whose boundless energy constantly gets him into trouble; communicating with a child who keeps her thoughts and feelings secret; understanding an adolescent who seems not to care that he is forever losing things (his homework, his baseball cap, his keys); broadening the horizons of a child who resists trying anything new or unfamiliar...; and how you can adapt your parenting style to your child's type - and get better results when communicating, supporting, motivating, and disciplining. Whether your child is a tantrum-prone toddler, a shy third-grader, a rebellious teen, or somewhere in between, Nurture by Nature will give you the power to understand why children are the way they are - and to become the best parent you can be.

Reviews

Personality-type assessment helps parents learn about a child's individuality. Armed with knowledge of that individuality, parents can add understanding and acceptance to their unconditional love, gear their parenting to the needs of the child, and help the child develop lasting self-esteem and happiness. According to Myers and Briggs, inventors of the personality inventory scales that bear their names, there are 16 types of personality, each of which is characterized by preferences in interpersonal interaction, sorts of information noticed and remembered, methods of decision making, and degrees of structure found desirable. Tieger and Barron-Tieger offer detailed interpretations of each of the Myers-Briggs types as they flesh out personality assessment as a valuable parenting resource, stressing that how valuable will depend quite heavily on specific parents' insights, perceptiveness, and imagination. Some prior familiarity with personality-type assessment will help in making the best use of their advice, yet this remains a remarkable tool for relating to children. Kathryn Carpenter

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316845132
• ISBN 13: 9780316845137
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304