5 big takeaways from a new study linking personality type to parenting style.
There’s a ton of data in this recent report from Truity about how personality types affect parenting. They turned it into a handy-dandy infographic, but it’s still a lot to take in, so Upworthy collected the highlights for everyone.
The study doesn’t make judgments about people or the results, but rather presents interesting commonalities and dissimilarities when it comes to how we raise our kids, what’s important to us, etc. It even tackles how parents see each other and themselves. From the report:
Perhaps a more constructive way of thinking about how we gravitate towards different
family roles would be to understand these choices as reflective of an individual’s talents,
strengths, and needs. Caring for children is a particular type of work, and just as with any
type of work, some people will be more naturally suited for it—and find it more personally
rewarding—than others.
I dig that a lot (and I’ve been saying it forever, just FYI—thanks for catching up, science!) because it stresses the importance of not comparing yourself to others. It shows we each have things at which we’re good.
The highlights are definitely worth a look, especially if you need reassurance that you’re doing okay as a parent. Because you totally are. Science says so.
