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

by Janet Levine

Overview

Knowing yourself helps your child

Are you a Helper or an Organizer? A Dreamer or an Entertainer? Nomatter which of the personality types on the Enneagram you are,this groundbreaking system gives you the vision to see the world asyour child sees it-and the power to use this vision to achieve allof your parenting goals.

Know Your Parenting Personality helps you discover how yourpersonality motivates the way you behave as a parent and how yourchild's personality interacts with your own. As an expert onpersonality, Janet Levine has pioneered a new understanding of theEnneagram based on hundreds of interviews with parents. You'lllearn how to recognize your greatest parenting strengths andweaknesses and how to free yourself to become a true guide andmentor to your child. This invaluable parenting guide helpsyou:
* 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 youalways wanted to be.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471250616
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/24/2003
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.16(w) x 9.37(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Janet Levine is an author, educator, and presenter. Janet has decades of published writing experience both as a book author and a freelance journalist. She is the author of five traditionally published works. For twenty-nine years (1986-2014) she taught in the English department at Milton Academy in Massachusetts. She leads workshops and presents programs internationally on the psychology of personality using the E-model. An anti-apartheid activist, she is an expert on South Africa and South African politics. The founder and leader of several successful non-profit organizations, in South Africa and the United States, Janet remains a committed activist for human rights. Please check out her website at janetlevine.com

Janet has published prolifically in magazines and professional journals over a decades long career as a writer both in the USA and her native South Africa. Her books are translated into several languages. Liv's Secrets (Armin Lear Press 2023); Reading Matters: How Literature Influences Life (Armin Lear Press 2022); Know Your Parenting Personality (Wiley 2004), The Enneagram Intelligences (Greenwood Publishing Group 1999), nominated for the 2002 Grawemeyer Education Award, Inside Apartheid (Contemporary Books 1988) and several other editions. Books reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Boston Globe, and many other publications both paper and electronic.

Magazines and Journals: Freelance journalist with publications in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Yale Review, and, in South Africa, the only white journalist to have a column in a black newspaper, The Sowetan. Her work has appeared in many other journals and magazines. She writes book reviews for the New York Journal of Books.

Awards, and other miscellaneous information

Certification: Enneagram Professional Training Program (1994)
Awards: The Enneagram Intelligences nominated for the Grawemeyer Education Award (2001).
Writing residencies: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (x 2) and the Hambidge Center (x 2).
Fellowships: Invited fellow at the Radcliffe Intellectual Renewal Seminars for Leaders (2002, 2006, 2009)
Board Member: Arden Seminars (rtd)
Membership: Authors Guild of America, various online writers' groups, and the Southwest Florida Writers Association.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. Discovering Your Parenting Personality:What's Your Type?

2. The Helper: Meeting the Needs of Others.

3. The Organizer: Loving through Doing.

4. The Dreamer: Connection Is Everything.

5. The Observer: Let's Step Back and See.

6. The Questioner: "Be Prepared"—That'sMy Motto.

7. The Entertainer: Let's Have Fun!Let's Play!

8. The Protector: I Am Your Sanctuary: NothingThreatens You Here.

9. The Peacekeeper: Living Life through Others.

10. The Moralizer: Always Striving forPerfection.

Epilogue: Taking the Next Step.

Appendix: History, Research, and Theory onPersonality Studies.

References.

Topics for Discussion.

Index.