Know Your Parenting Personality

Knowing yourself helps your child Are you a Helper or an Organizer? A Dreamer or an Entertainer? Nomatter which of the personality types on the Enneagram you are,this groundbreaking system gives you the vision to see the world asyour child sees it-and the power to use this vision to achieve allof your parenting goals. Know Your Parenting Personality helps you discover how yourpersonality motivates the way you behave as a parent and how yourchild's personality interacts with your own. As an expert onpersonality, Janet Levine has pioneered a new understanding of theEnneagram based on hundreds of interviews with parents. You'lllearn how to recognize your greatest parenting strengths andweaknesses and how to free yourself to become a true guide andmentor to your child. This invaluable parenting guide helpsyou: * Establish stronger connections with your child * Eliminate self-defeating behavior patterns * Deepen parent--child communication * Reduce stress in your home * Gain self awareness and identify your parenting strengths * Support the flowering of your child's personality Read Know Your Parenting Personality and become the parent youalways wanted to be.

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Discovering Your Parenting Personality:What's Your Type? 2. The Helper: Meeting the Needs of Others. 3. The Organizer: Loving through Doing. 4. The Dreamer: Connection Is Everything. 5. The Observer: Let's Step Back and See. 6. The Questioner: "Be Prepared"--That'sMy Motto. 7. The Entertainer: Let's Have Fun!Let's Play! 8. The Protector: I Am Your Sanctuary: NothingThreatens You Here. 9. The Peacekeeper: Living Life through Others. 10. The Moralizer: Always Striving forPerfection. Epilogue: Taking the Next Step. Appendix: History, Research, and Theory onPersonality Studies. References. Topics for Discussion. Index.