Something that has been extremely helpful in raising my 3 awesome children has been to understand the differences between different personality types. The two big ones are introversion and extroversion. Despite introverts being only about 25% of the population, in our family we have 3 obvious introverts and 1 borderline extrovert (hubby) and 1 very obvious extroverted child. To top it all off I (an INFJ) am considered to be only about 1% of the population. Crazy, but true. Balancing my need for quiet and my extrovert child's need for noise and social interaction is difficult. Difficult, but possible. There are two great places to determine the sometimes subtle differences in a persons personalities are http://www.personalitypage.com/cgi-local/build_pqk.cgi for children 7-12 and http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp for adults and older children.
The answers these tests give can really help make a difference in interacting with our children and choosing a homeschooling curriculum.
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