I am kind of a temperament nerd, so when I happened across this parenting book based on Myers-Briggs types, it came right off the shelf. Honestly, I didn't expect too much when I started to skim it that evening, but I found myself reading half of it aloud to Bob. I love that the goal of this books is not to present a particular ideal of motherhood, but to give you tools to understand your mothering personality and the strengths and weaknesses that are particular to you. The descriptions of the INTP's "struggles" had Bob and I cracking up: "noise and confusion of family life" and "routines."You don't say?
Mothering, like the rest of life, is largely about making choices - we all know we can't do it all, but how do you decide what to do? The insight I have gained from learning more about temperament has really helped me think more clearly about what kind of choices make sense for our family, to stop striving for things I'm unlikely to ever be able to pull of well, but also how to better take care of things that I have to that do not come terribly naturally to me.
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