Motherstyles: Using Personality Type to Discover Your Parenting Strengths (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738210452)

An antidote to our stressed-out mother culture, MotherStyles validates the notion that good mothering comes in many styles and explains how understanding how you most often react to your child and why is the most important step toward working through areas that have long given you trouble. Drawing on the personality type-theory popularized by the Myers-Briggs(r) Type Indicator and author Janet Penley's more than eighteen years of working with mothers, MotherStyles explains the combinations of traits that make up sixteen distinct mothering approaches. From the "Tuned-In Mother," the "Heart-to-Heart Mother," and the "Kids 'r' Fun Mother" to the "Responsibility Mother" and the "Independence Mother," Penley helps readers identify which style reflects her own strengths, struggles, and needs and, from there, offers unique and concrete ideas for ways to overcome the parenting challenges inherent to each type. Guiding mothers to an understanding of how type affects parent-child interactions and family dynamics, MotherStyles will help moms everywhere to recharge their batteries, and find success in this most important of roles.

Author: Janet Penley, Diane Eble
ISBN-10: 0738210455
ISBN-13: 9780738210452
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2006
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.40w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/03/2006 pg. 62