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Know Your Parenting Personality How to Use the Enneagram to Become the Best Parent You Can Be JAN E T LE V I N E John Wiley & Sons, Inc fmatter.qxd 12/26/02 3:07 PM Page vi fmatter.qxd 12/26/02 3:07 PM Page i Know Your Parenting Personality fmatter.qxd 12/26/02 3:07 PM Page ii Also by Janet Levine The Enneagram Intelligences: Understanding Personality for Effective Teaching and Learning Inside Apartheid: One Woman’s Struggle in South Africa fmatter.qxd 12/26/02 3:07 PM Page iii Know Your Parenting Personality How to Use the Enneagram to Become the Best Parent You Can Be JAN E T LE V I N E John Wiley & Sons, Inc fmatter.qxd 12/26/02 3:07 PM Page iv Copyright © 2003 by Janet Levine. All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada Design and production by Navta Associates, Inc. The majority of the material in the appendix appeared previously in chapter 1 of The Enneagram Intelligences: Understanding Personality for Effective Teaching and Learning by the author and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Used here with permission. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or trans- mitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Pub- lisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copy- right Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 750-4470, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, email: fmatter.qxd 12/26/02 3:07 PM Page v To my parents, Solly and Eileen Berman fmatter.qxd 12/26/02 3:07 PM Page vi fmatter.qxd 12/26/02 3:07 PM Page vii C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Discovering Your Parenting Personality 9 What’s Your Type? 2. The Helper 33 Meeting the Needs of Others 3. The Organizer 55 Loving through Doing 4. The Dreamer 79 Connection Is Everything 5. The Observer 101 Let’s Step Back and See 6. The Questioner 125 “Be Prepared“—That’s My Motto 7. The Entertainer 149 Let’s Have Fun! Let’s Play! vii fmatter.qxd 12/26/02 3:07 PM Page viii CONT E N T S 8. The Protector 171 I Am Your Sanctuary: Nothing Threatens You Here 9. The Peacekeeper 195 Living Life through Others 10. The Moralizer 221 Always Striving for Perfection Epilogue 245 Taking the Next Step Appendix 251 History, Research, and Theory on Personality Studies References 268 Topics for Discussion 269 Index 273 viii
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