HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR CHILD?
A child’s personality is the combination of qualities that form his or her distinctive character (Oxford Dictionary). The American Psychological Association also refers to personality as the enduring characteristics and behaviour that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life, including major traits, interests, drives, values, self-concept and emotional patterns. They are formed as a result of an interplay between a child’s inherited genes and the environment in which they grow. When it comes to personality types, most parents are aware of the 4 conventional types described by Hippocrates: the Sanguine , the Choleric , the Phlegmatic , and the Melancholic . The Myers-Briggs system, however, spells out 16 personality types from combinations/permutations drawn from 4 pairs of classification. Each pair reveals extremes of that personality spectrum. The 4 pairs are the JUDGE versus the PERCEIVER, the FEELER versus the THINKER, the INTROVERT versus the EXTROVERT, and the ...