[.ca] Personality Plus for Parents: Understanding What Makes ... (ISBN 0800757378)

This book will help you to be a better parent!:
I have four children, and they all have different personalities. This book has helped me to identify which personality the children fall under, then what I can do about it to build up their strengths and help them work on their weaknesses. Because I am a "Perfect Melancholy" as I parent I tend to expect perfection, the book warns against that and advises to ease up on my perfectionism. This is just one example, but the book is awsome. I have shared it with my friends and we all have had a great time taking the personality test to see which personality we are. If you want to understand your children better please get this book!! Why does your daughter always talk, talk, talk? And why does your son like to take the path of least resistance all the time? I highly recommend this book from one mom to another.

The best parenting book ever!:
If I was going to recommend a book for parents battling with their kids, this would be it! I wish I had read it before all the others. It explains so much about why my son does the things he does, and the best way to deal with his behaviour without totalling losing it with him. Great to be able to do the personality test for parents too. A must-have!

Necessary Read for Parents:
Having read Personality Plus and thoroughly enjoyed that, I bought "PP for Parents" as gift to my sister (and read it too). I'm single, but I suppose the book is really helpful for parents to understand their children better. How many times we hear parents say "I wish you're more like your brother!"? Every child is different and each should be treated differently accordingly. This book explains how they differ, and guides us on how to more effectively deal with it. Parents could also avoid unnecessary or even damaging reaction/treatment to the differences. Since the personality of an individual is innate, recognizing it in a child is easier. And critical. It is beneficial to start early in harnessing the potential - sharping the good side of it, and smothering the negative one. Make the best of the different personality. Emotional health developed during childhood has great impact throughout a person's life. I think it would be a loss not to read this book.

I COULDN'T PUT THIS BOOK DOWN:
This book is EXCELLENT. Every parent needs to read it. I have 5 children and this book has helped me so much to see what makes my children different, and has enabled me to accept them just as they are. Just one example-my third son has always seemed to be lazy. He is just not motivated to work. I used to worry that I was raising a lazy adult but this book showed me that he is a phlegmatic, and phlegmatics tend to be that way! They find the shortest way to do things and are unmotivated to get their work done. I now understand my little guy and why he is like he is-I can accept him as living according to his temperament. I could give several other examples. This book is practical in that it lists the strengths and weaknesses of each temperament and gives ideas for parents on how to raise their children according to how they are. I loved that it pairs up the different combinations of parents and children. I could go on and on but suffice it to say that I read the book in just a couple of days and learned so much that it's changed the way I relate to my children. I even learned much about me and also about my husband. It's a fascinating, practical, life-changing book. I can't recommend it highly enough. Now I'm off to read her book for adults, "Personality Plus". :)