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If
you are an:
INFJ INFP
ENFJ ENFP
INTJ INTP
ENTJ ENTP
ISFJ ISFP
ESFJ ESFP
ISTJ ISTP
ESTJ or ESTP
This page is especially for you.
You
have
arrived at a special page for the website
ParentingbyTemperament, that is intended for adults who already know something
about their own Keirsey temperament or MBTI type.
The contributions of the great Myers-Briggs team and
of David Kiersey, have enabled adults to identify
and understand the impact that type and temperament
have on relationships, work, decision making and
lifestyle. Very likely you place a high value on the
usefulness of this knowledge in your own work and
personal life.
Now we offer a new approach to applying the concepts
of temperament and type to children, and to the
interactions of children and parents. We began by
accepting that preference (and thus type and
temperament) are innate qualities. As such, they
should be seen in some form, quite early in life,
and indeed, other research on temperament in
children has long indicated that this is true.
Based on that, we rigorously tested scales (Sorters)
designed to measure preference behavior in children,
as seen by the parent. These Sorters have been
validated by a thorough statistical analysis of the
responses of over a thousand families in Southern
California. In a subsample of 400 cases, both
parents answered the sorter for each child, and we
found them to be in agreement on preference
behaviors over 75% of the time.
The Sorters are taken by the parent, who answers
questions that are based mainly on the child’s
everyday behaviors. Form one is designed for parents
of children aged 4 to 8 years and form two for ages
9-12 years. For a limited time these Sorters will be
available for self-scoring on our website, free of
charge. With them we also offer a well-tested adult
Sorter for those who have not taken other
instruments, or who wish to validate previous
results against this measure.
With the Sorters, we have designed a systematic
program for understanding your child’s preferences
and type. We have written a two volume set of books
entitled Raising CuddleBugs and BraveHearts.
The subtitle for Volume I is Measuring and
Understanding your Child’s Temperament, and for
Volume II: Adult Temperament and Parenting
Styles. In Raising CuddleBugs and
BraveHearts Vol. I, parents identify their
child's preferences, temperament and type, and
explore the impact of temperament on the
socialization process, learning, discipline, family
responsibilities, adolescence and much more.
In Vol. II parents begin by exploring their own
temperament and the influence of that on their
parental expectations and parenting style.
Parents consider how their own temperament
influences their core expectations about the
behavior or traits a child should have. We then
present a theoretical model of ideal parenting
practices, based on the best of recent scientific
practices, and discuss the ways in which different
parts of this model may be very easy or very
difficult for a particular parent temperament. We
don’t suggest that any parent make a pretzel of his
or her natural preferences to fit the “ideal” model,
but we do suggest ways to stretch the natural self a
little in directions where parent preferences tend
to lead far from that ideal. Raising CuddleBugs..
helps parents consider how the temperament of the
child and the temperament of the parent interact in
ways that may make all the difference for the
ultimate happiness and joy of family life.
Please visit our
homepage for more
information and for excerpts from each of the
chapters in both volumes of Raising CuddleBugs,
and go to our Sorter pages for each of our
temperament measures:
The Harkey Jourgensen
Childhood Temperament Sorter—Form I Age 4-8
The Harkey Jourgensen
Childhood Temperament Sorter—Form II Age 9-12
The Harkey-Jourgensen
Adult Temperament Sorter.
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