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In This week’s Mind ReMapping Moment, we talk about Understanding Personalities; How Does Your Child Perceive the World.
In the last two episodes, I talked about how I like to view and help people understand personalities in the context of Myers Briggs. We began with the conversation of introversion versus extroversion. If you haven’t listened to those episodes, head over to the Black Mind Garden podcast and subscribe to catch up.
Today, we will be discussing the second dichotomy, which is the sensor versus the intuitive. We want to understand our children’s personalities in the context of our own personalities, as this helps us communicate better with them and move forward in a way that works for everyone.
The sensor versus intuitive dichotomy is about how we perceive the world. Sensors perceive the world through touch, feeling, and outward interaction, while intuitive are more imaginative and perceive the world from the inside out. I identify as intuitive and don’t need a lot of feedback, while my son is a kinesthetic person who needs to feel and touch things to perceive the world.
Remember, these polarities of personality are a spectrum, and our kids can be on one end of the spectrum or the other end of the spectrum, and everywhere in between. Next week, we will be discussing the thinker versus the feeler dichotomy.
If your child is old enough, you can have them take a test that takes about 20 minutes to determine which side they are on. However, if you are just observing, generally speaking, if they complete the task in their own way and not how you specifically said to do it, it may be that they’re on the intuitive side.
Intuitive children may sometimes get mislabeled as oppositional to guidance, so it’s important to understand that they are just finding a better way to do it.
We need to observe our children, listen to them, and pay attention to the way they process information and interact with the world.
Behaviors do not come out of the blue and that there is always something underneath. As parents, it’s important to understand where on the spectrum our children are and to interact with them in a more trauma-responsive and trauma-informed way.
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