Jessica is the kind of youth minister you want your son or daughter to have! She has a heart to know each person in her group on a very deep level so that she can impact them in life-changing ways. Surprisingly, Jessica is a calm, cool and collected, INTJ or Intuitive thinker. NT’s typically are…
Can you relate to this sentence? I sometimes have the tendency to go overboard and I don’t even own a boat! In my case, it happens quite often. My first child going out into the real world was cause for me to be inspired to go BIG for his fifth birthday party! I would invite…
When my ISFJ (Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging) boy was three he would demonstrate some very interesting behavior. Whenever he would receive a lollipop or something of an equal fascination to a three-year-old, instead of devouring it, he would sit with it and stare at it. He loved to bask in its beauty and novelty, examining…
It’s a sad thing when you wake up injured! I always thought of my bed as a safe place, but I was mistaken! The bed has been infiltrated by an enemy! That enemy is my pillow! My $15 Laura Ashley Extra Firm Pillow from Bed Bath and Beyond may not seem like an enemy, but…
I blew up at my sweet, wouldn’t hurt a fly, 11-year-old son one morning. Of course, I wasn’t planning on having this outburst, it came completely out of the blue! Almost every morning we either fight the battle of the missing shoes or the battle of the uncombed hair. On this particular morning, it was…
When the phone rang at 3 o clock in the morning, I awoke with dread. My heart was thumping in my head as I lifted the receiver. “Hello?” I answered in a haze. It was my dearest friend, but it didn’t sound like her. “Gary’s dead” she said flatly. In sheer disbelief, I stammered out…
It is truly a testament to temperament that I ended up in a fulfilling career, considering that I really wasn’t all that self-aware as a Senior in High School. I went into college “undeclared” and had to switch my major four times before I landed on the course of study that was right for me.…
I used to wish that my daughter and I were more alike. I dreamed of the day when we could go shopping together, have heart to heart talks over Starbucks and get our toenails done…rights of passages for girls. Instead, I watched my STP child (living in the moment, thinking vs. feeling) rip the heads and…
We have all experienced the roller coaster ride of parenting! One minute we are enjoying a smooth, flat section of track and then, whoosh, the track drops out from under us and we wonder why we got on the ride in the first place! Our kids can bring us our greatest joys and also our…
THE SJ or Structured Parent Darla was having a hard time figuring out her temperament. She was pretty evenly matched in the areas of check it off the box or leave the options open-ended. One is more controlling the other is more relaxed. One is in the box the other is out. She enlisted her…
Out of David Kiersey’s four personality types: two are fairly cooperative and will submit to authority and two will challenge that authority at every turn. If you have one of these challenges, you probably already know it. I work with these types all the time and can tell you very specifically about how your difficult…
Sometimes it can be a bit puzzling to spot an introvert even if they are living under your own roof! If they are an ambivert or someone who possesses both introverted and extroverted qualities, it can be even trickier! In Susan Cain’s popular book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop…
