"I don't know any parent who says, 'Yeah, I really want my kids to grow up feeling manipulated by tech designers — manipulating their attention, making it impossible to do their homework, comparing themselves to unrealistic standards of beauty," -Tristan Harris, former design ethicist at Google and the co-founder Center for Humane Technology ‘The Social…
Teach them according to their temperament My little West Highland White Terrier, Milo has a BIG personality. When he first came home, I was planning to train him like I did my other terriers. However, this white fuzzy fur ball had his own unique personality that did not respond to the techniques I had previously…
Quarantined Tips for the Temperaments We are living in unprecedented times! I am amazed every day as I read neighborhood chats and social media posts by the wide variety of reactions people are having to everything regarding COVID 19. "I am absolutely loving having my family around me, keeping them safe and providing for them."…
Almost every day when it came time for 9-year-old Lucy to do her chores, there was a fight between she and her older brother. Even though her parents had set up a system where she did the dishes on even days, and her brother did them on odd days, she would complain about the injustice…
As a parenting coach and former teacher, I know that parent/teacher conferences can strike anxiety into the heart of a parent. For this very reason, I used to make phone calls to parents just to tell them how well their child was doing in my class. When the parent answered and heard it was little…
I remember being a young mom with two toddlers under the age of two in diapers. My days consisted of chasing them around the house repeating the words “no” and “be careful” over and over just to survive. My kids are teenagers now, but I was still interested to read about a UCLA study which…
Now that my kids are 15 and 17, I can't exactly enroll them in vacation bible school or cooking camp like I used to! They work jobs, but they are usually home during the day and gone in the evening. This was a fun project we all enjoyed because we got an old patio set off…
All year, my seventeen-year-old son Nathan juggled homework with band practice, film and music competitions, his part-time job at Chick Fil A and playing chauffeur for his younger sister. The first day of summer after he brought home that final report card with a 4.2 GPA, it wasn’t the right time to have the “what…
Are Screens Making us Blind? If you cross your eyes for too long, they will not get stuck that way and staring at screens will not make you blind, but it may have a very adverse effect. A recent study from the Journal of Experimental Eye Research showed that children under the age of…
Are Screens Making us Blind? If you cross your eyes for too long, they will not get stuck that way and staring at screens will not make you blind, but it may have a very adverse effect. A recent study from the Journal of Experimental Eye Research showed that children under the age of…
Why Kids Lie and How to Handle It. We’ve all experienced it. That moment when our innocent and obedient child looks us square in the eye and lies to us for the first time. I remember it well. I was snuggled next to my twelve-year-old daughter, Jordan, watching Frozen for the fifty seventh time. Suddenly,…
Meaningful Volunteer Opportunities for Families this Summer by Wendy Gossett, MA,Ed. Although going to the swimming pool is fun, there are only so many days even the most amphibious kid can handle. When my kids were in the third and fourth grade, I decided to take a break from all the sunscreen slathering and introduce…
There are five universal negative behaviors that all personality types can exhibit: disobedience, aggression, high sensitivity, inattentiveness or hyperactivity. It is easy to see bad behavior in our kids, but it’s not as easy to see is the motivation behind that behavior. We may think we know, but our perspective may be biased based on…
In addition to knowing the four letters of your type, it is almost more important to understand your dominant and secondary cognitive functions. These functions comprise 90% or your personality and account for most of your strengths. Solar power is the most mystical of all the other power sources. The solar satellite orbits the earth…
Dominant-ENFJ, ESFJ Secondary-INFJ, ISFJ (Judging) An electric commuter train is powered by the electrical current received through making contact with a power source. For Extraverted feelers or Harmonizers that power source is human interaction. Electric commuter trains are ideal for serving hundreds of people. All Fe types are propelled to help others, although SJ’s prefer helping in…
Sadly, our kids haven't dressed up for Halloween, or gone Trick or Treating for a couple of years now. Since every Sunday is "family day", I twisted everyone's arm to create a Wonka Vator out of a box I wrestled up from using the Nextdoor App. My husband was using his power tools to drill…
Parenting Lessons from "This is Us" based on each character’s Myer’s Briggs type, according to family temperament specialist, Wendy Gossett. Jack’s death in the Season Two finale of This is Us, brought many tears, but Milo Ventimiglia who plays the role encourages viewers that “there is still a lot of life left in Jack!” In…
Many types are out of the box thinkers and extremely creative. I am amazed when an artist can paint something they dreamed up in their head or write a song that can move me to tears. I am ENFJ and although I am not as good at creating something from nothing, I would still say that…
Hi Wendy, As spiritual formation pastor, I have been pondering personality and a question on how personality types who are high "Thinkers" experience loving God. Do thinkers love God, or people, with a love that is more mind-oriented and much less heart-oriented? As a high Feeler, I have a hard time entering into a high…
Little 6-year-old Renee was having all kinds of anxiety issues! In addition to having trouble sleeping at night, she was having anxiety attacks about going to her piano and ballet lessons. At times her fear would turn into full-blown panic and her parents were at their wits end! I discovered that Renee’s Mom’s type was…
