Know Your Parenting Personality: How to Use the Enneagram to Become the Best Parent You Can Be - Softcover

Levine, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471250619 ISBN 13: 9780471250616

Publisher: Wiley, 2003

Synopsis

Knowing yourself helps your child Are you a Helper or an Organizer? A Dreamer or an Entertainer? No matter which of the personality types on the Enneagram you are, this groundbreaking system gives you the vision to see the world as your child sees it-and the power to use this vision to achieve all of your parenting goals. Know Your Parenting Personality helps you discover how your personality motivates the way you behave as a parent and how your child's personality interacts with your own. As an expert on personality, Janet Levine has pioneered a new understanding of the Enneagram based on hundreds of interviews with parents. You'll learn how to recognize your greatest parenting strengths and weaknesses and how to free yourself to become a true guide and mentor to your child. This invaluable parenting guide helps you: 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 you always wanted to be.

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Know Your Parenting Personality: How to Use the Enneagram toBecome the Best Parent You Can Be is a powerful new book onparenting by author and educator Janet Levine. In this book Levineapplies The Enneagram, a popular system of personality mapping, toparenting. The book is geared towards book clubs and discussiongroups and includes a discussion guide.

"...An interesting concept, well presented with lotsof practical advice and case studies..." (Junior, July2003)Janet Levine's newest book is to this generation of parents whatHaim Ginott's "Between Parent and Child" was to the '60s and ThomasGordon's "Parent Effectiveness Training" was to the '70s. This bookaddresses people who have the most motivation to bring aboutchange: parents. They will find effective action strategies topromote greater understanding, compassion and self-esteem for bothparent and child. I highly recommend this book to allparents.
--Sammylane Wirth, PH.D Family Therapist, ParentEducator

Janet Levine has written a wonderful book. She has translatedand applied the material on personality typology in a manner whichis cogent, accessible and engaging for both clinicians and parents.This is an extremely valuable resource for everyone who seeks tounderstand parent-child interaction, and will help many individualsbecome more empathic toward themselves and the ones theylove.
--Joseph G. Schaller, Psy.D. Clinical Psychologist;Director, The Postgraduate Center, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology, WidenerUniversity;Private Practice with Children and Adults

Janet Levine's revolutionary and valuable new book directsreaders to specific action programs to make lasting improvementswithin their family dynamics. It is clearly written, helpful andempowering; a must read for all parents, would-be parents, andprofessionals who work with parents.
--Sarah M. Drennan, Ph.D Licensed ClinicalPsychologist, and psychotherapist in private practice

Synopsis

How to use the Enneagram to become the best parent you can be The Enneagram, a popular system of personality mapping, has helped millions of people get a better understanding of their motivations, talents, and problems. With this unique guide, Enneagram expert Janet Levine applies the system to parenting - and shows people how to develop richer, stronger, less stressful relationships with their children. A simple test helps people discover their Enneagram parenting type - Moralizer, Helper, Organizer, Dreamer, Rationalizer, Questioner, Entertainer, Protector, or Peacekeeper - which corresponds to one of the nine standard Enneagram types. An insightful discussion of each parenting type - including lots of practical tips on interacting with a child who has a different type - helps people deepen communication, change self-defeating behavior patterns, and encourage the flowering of a child's own personality. Janet Levine (Milton, MA), a journalist with thirty-five years of experience, is the author of Enneagram Intelligences: Understanding Personality for Effective Teaching and Learning and the founder and first president of a professional organization of Enneagram teachers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471250619
• ISBN 13: 9780471250616
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 291