Amazing Chidren

This weekend at church, we learned about the different personalities that our children have and how these compare to our own personality. My personality is more of a motivator. This person is enthusiastic, likes variety, spontaneous, flexible and optimistic. My husband is an Analyzer. He is accurate, seeks proof and validation, plans projects in a step by step manner, sets high standards for self and others and focuses on facts. Can you see that these are opposites?

Our daughter, Sidney, we are still trying to figure her out. I think that she is also an Analyzer just based on her usual behavior. This may be why she and I clash so much at times...our personalities are completely different. An example of her personality and how she interprets different things is something she told me the other day after she came home from school. She didn't get to go to school on Monday because she was sick. Evidently, there were new stations that the teacher showed them in their classroom. Friday, she had time to do stations at school and she told me that she was gone on Monday so she didn't learn what those new stations were. So, I asked her what the new stations were and she didn't know. Her response was, "I wasn't in school so I didn't learn about them." She said this so matter of fact that I just smiled because she was right but that is not what my response would have been if it was me that was answering.

Our son, Micah, is a very high Motivator. Everything that he does is loud, spontaneous, with full energy and he talks all the time. His thoughts seem to just spill out of his mouth...as if there isn't anything stopping his thoughts transforming from his brain to words on his tongue. Micah clashes with Chris, my husband, quite a bit. I think their relationship has similar struggles to what Sidney and I experience. An example of Micah in his true form is how he greets the little girl that I babysit during the week. Each day that she comes through the front door, he yells her name. I remind him every day not to yell but he still does. He gets so excited that his friend is there to play with him that he expresses his joy with his words. I tell him to turn his volume down, which he thinks is on his tummy, and most of the time he tells me it is off. It really isn't, I think it is stuck on the highest volume.

Quinn, well, he is only 4 weeks old so we aren't really sure what personality he has yet. He is a great baby though. He seems to be very calm and really only cries when he is hungry or cold. He really hates getting his bottom wiped with a wet wipe because they are so cold.

The uniqueness of our children are just a reminder of how God has made us all different. Our challenge is how we can relate best to our children based on their personality and ours. They see the world through different eyes and it isn't wrong...just different.