The Parent Series
Guardian Parents
Guardian parents are favorite punching bags. That's in part because there are so many of them, so they are more likely to be your parent or your mate's or best friend's parent. Also, Guardians have a tendency to believe that they are right, which no amount of discussion can change. Not all Guardians are like this, and some actually do change once they learn about personality types, but there are an awful lot of self-righteous Guardians out there. That self-righteousness can wreak havoc on a…
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Rational Parents
Rational parents are the least common and, subsequently, the most mysterious. There are few stereotypes of Rational parents, except the absent-minded professor or scientist. Rationals prize intelligent thought in their offspring. When their children begin to debate, they love to debate back and find out how far the child has thought things through. Rationals provide a home environment which encourages learning, debate, experimentation, and independent thinking. The family may have f…
Idealist Parents
Idealist parents are a lot less common than Guardian and Artisan parents. The stereotypes of Idealist parents could often be one of the other temperaments – the artsy type, the flake, the nurturer, the believe-in-you-no-matter-what type, the emotional blackmailer and so on. An Idealist’s desire for intuitive introspection can be incomprehensible to many Guardians, annoying to Artisans, and an invasion of privacy for Rationals. Idealist parents are generally the bes…
Artisan Parents
Like Guardian parents, we tend to have a clear picture in our mind’s eye of what Artisan parents look like. Guardians are the neat, structured, and rigid parents while Artisans are the flexible, messy, unpredictable parents. Of course many Guardians and Artisans don’t fit neatly into either group, but it still seems to be the American perception of the two kinds of parents. When people grow up, they are likely to have one of two complaints about their parents. The…
