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The Enneagram of Parenting
Elizabeth Wagele
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The Enneagram of Parenting
Elizabeth Wagele
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Elizabeth Wagele, coauthor of The Enneagram Made Easy and Are You My Type, Am I Yours?, offers the first practical guidebook for parents -- packed with her delightful cartoons -- on how the Enneagram can help to understand and work with children's personality traits and behavioral patterns more effectively and creatively. Using her expertise in making the Enneagram accessible through simple text and zany, informative cartoons, Wagele shows parents how to be flexible and compassionate, willing and eager to recognize the unique potential of every child and to respond to and nurture each child appropriately.
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Personalidad en psicologĂaTwenty Additional Problem Areas
Most of the following subjects werenât covered in the previous chapters. Now that youâve been introduced to the nine styles of children and learned something about adult Enneagram types, see how you can apply this knowledge to your family:
Bed-Wetting
Bed-wetting is considered normal for the first six or seven years. (Thinking weâve failed as parents if our children arenât completely trained by two years old is also normal.) If your child is at least six years old, withhold all liquids after four or five oâclock and take the child to urinate before bed. Repeat this once in the night before you go to bed. Lead children all the way into the bathroom and onto or in front of the toilet, even if they refuse or insist they canât go. These children sleep very soundly. Sometimes they donât outgrow bed-wetting until twelve or fourteen or older, but this is rare. Be patient and donât scold, punish, or make them wash their own sheets. Work out a system of rewards for over two or more daysâ success in a row, and keep it up for several months. Be supportive; this problem is difficult for the child, especially when it comes time for sleepovers or summer camp. Notice how your child reacts to bed-wetting: with guilt, fear, anger, nonchalance? Some kids are sure theyâll stop wetting the bed tomorrow, while others fear theyâll still be doing it when theyâre grandparents. Donât assume your child will respond the way you would or did.
Biting
If your small child bites you (or anyone else in your presence), be firm: âYou mustnât do that! It hurts!â Try not to overreact. The child will eventually internalize your reactions and stop. Explain how the biting affects others rather than trying to convince the child he or she did a bad thing; this will be more effective and will help the child develop empathy.
Invite other children over only for short visits when your biter is relatively happy, rested, and well fed(!). Try to keep things calm, and choose more mature children for playmates, especially those who can defend themselves. Instead of focusing on your own anger or frustration, try to determine if thereâs a message in the biting. Is your child too tired? Is he or she trying to dominate the other? Does he or she want the other child to go away?
Clothes
Encourage your kids to choose their favorite colors, fabrics, and styles, within the limits of your budget. Even though this is difficult for parents who take pride in their sense of fashion, avoid imposing your taste on them. When appropriate, give children a push toward shopping for themselves.
Communication
When kids are tiny babies, talk to them a lot, in your language and in theirs, but donât talk baby talk to toddlers who are learning to speak. Listen to them without putting words in their mouths or finishing their sentences for them. Be forgiving if they say things they didnât really mean to say; try to remember a time in your childhood when you did this, too.
When it is appropriate to their age, set up weekly or biweekly family meetings. Pledge to listen with an open mind. Encourage open and honest expressions of feelings, and donât stifle contrary ones. Donât criticize or laugh at your children or try to squeeze feelings out of them they donât necessarily have.
When discussing a problem with your kids, think up as many solutions as you can together, then narrow the options down to one. Kids will try harder to make it work if theyâve been involved in the problem-solving process. Some families prefer to set up a meeting only when thereâs a pressing issue.
The golden rule (âDo unto others as you would have them do unto youâ) is not an ideal communication tool, because it assumes that we all want the same thing. It would be better to teach our children to empathizeâto do unto others as others would like to be done to.
Suzanne and I were jabbering away as we drove to a gathering about an hour and a half away. Her ten-year-old son, Jules, sat quietly in the backseat. After twenty minutes, Jules sat up straight, leaned forward, and said firmly, â I think you should realize there are three people in the car and include me in the conversation.â
We should teach our kids itâs all right to speak up for themselves and to tell people what they need and how theyâd like to be treated.
Indirect communication, such as through letters or art. is more comfortable at times. If your child has suffered a traumatic experience, drawing or painting the experience, dramatizing it, or telling the details to someone in a calm, safe environment can be healing.
Discipline
The more structure and predictability you have, and the more you deal with your child in a kind and firm way, the less you will have to punish.
STANLEY TURECKI, M.D.
Deliver a prompt and strong verbal message if your toddler starts to go in the street, play with electricity, or pull the catâs tail; then quickly remove the child from the situation. Set limits gently but with authority. With older children, you may want to write out some of the rules and the consequences for breaking them. If kids misbehave, use a serious and firm (not shrill or frightening) voice. Donât get into an argument about punishment. Itâs never necessary to discipline for disciplines sake, but if you need to punish, use a time-out or take away a privilege.
If children do something hurtful to another person, ask them to think about how the person might feel and how the situation should be handled.
Family routines can cut down on conflict and stress, but too much predictability feels like imprisonment to some free-spirited children. When kids are disciplined or criticized too much, they often show signs of feeling bad about themselves.
Itâs a common practice for parents and teachers to call a time-out when a child misbehaves and have the child go to his or her room or a quiet place for five or ten minutes. This removes the child from the scene of conflict, allows him or her to cool off emotionally, and interrupts negative behavior. It also gives the child the message that the behavior was unacceptable.
Itâs sometimes more effective to bring children closer to youâto give them your protectionâinstead of isolating them. They may be confused about the difficulty theyâve just had and may need to experience a positive attachment to a stronger adult ego. Bring them into the room with you to sit beside you or to be held. Let them express how they feel, and acknowledge their feelings. You might want to read the example of this in the âSiblingsâ section of this chapter.
Divorce
In childrenâs minds, if one parent leaves, so could the other. It makes sense, then, that kids might regress to a former behaviorâone thatâs familiar and makes them feel secure. Keep their lives structured and maintain the same discipline, keep celebrating special occasions like birthdays, and donât buy them a million toys. Also, be very careful about what you say about your ex-spouse, for they know that he or she is part of them. Explain the separation in such a way that they know itâs not their fault.
Show your children you care about how the divorce affects them.
If you remarry, your children may not like it at all. Since you experience the relationship to your new spouse differently than your children do, explain that this is right for you, and reassure them that you still care very much about their feelings.
Drugs
Healthy attitudes about drugs and alcohol depend on your childrenâs ability to trust themselves, make good judgments, and solve their own problems. Parental moralizing, controlling, and overprotecting are of no help. If children see their parents solve their own problems by numbing out with substances, the kids may do it, too. But even when parents are paradigms of right living, kids can still get into difficulty with drugs. Children who have confidence and are grounded in reality know when to stay away from a substance, when to stop experimenting, and when to walk away from a situation. Educate them about what narcotics can do to the body and mind. Tell them youâre against drugs, yet let them know theyâre safe coming to you with problems. Children who feel accepted and competent and have interests and skills they enjoy are not as likely to become dangerously involved in harmful activities.
Parents usually feel guilty and angry when they learn their child is using drugs regularly. The child needs professional, parental, and family help, not punishment. Groups that educate and support parents can advise parents on how to confront the child and how to set up intervention and treatment, if necessary.
Some signs of drug use are behavior changes such as truancy, depression, hostility, poor grades, preoccupation, lying, and stealing. Physical symptoms include a dry cough, red eyes, and lethargy.
Resources include the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (800-NCA-CALL) and Alateen (associated with Alcoholics Anonymous). Some schools and hospitals also have programs or make referrals.
Eating Disorders: Binge Eating,
Overeating, Bulimia, and Anorexia
Eating disorders can be heartbreaking: parents can become so frightened and confused that they try to punish their child, both for the disorder and the secrecy that usually accompany these disorders.
Binge eaters and overeaters usually associate food and staying full with comfort and being loved. Anorexia (the inability to stop dieting) and bulimia (making oneself vomit) often start in puberty and occur more often in girls than in boys. Obsessive dieting and compulsive eating may be helped by going to Overeate...