Hi Noell & Angie & Paperclipping Roundtable Community:

I was the one who sent the idea for this episode after having a totally engaging conversation with Angie about the Myers Briggs test and applying that to your life.  I could seriously talk about this type of stuff forever, so I loved this episode and I often times find myself thinking about how personality traits influence how we react in different situations – I especially try to think of these types of things at work in communicating with clients and resolving interpersonal issues with the 6 people in our office (5 of whom are female – so imagine how Charlie, my husband feels).  But we are very in tune with each team member’s traits and have actually used the test at work and we try to place people in certain roles depending on their strengths and weaknesses.  I’m pretty good at determining adults’ personality traits.  As you’ll learn below (if you decide to read my obnoxiously long email), I’m not so great at getting my kids’ personality traits correct.

I am SO EXCITED and had to share!  A few months ago, I think maybe after this episode, I went through the Myer-Briggs Test from Human Metrics with the 72 questions with my son who is a nine year old with ADHD.  He quickly got bored with the test but did answer many of the questions and I was surprised by his answers that he considers himself an introvert – I always think of him as an extrovert because teachers always call him a kid-magnet and he does have a unique talent for leading and being the center of the group of kids – he does this without trying and often times somewhat  reluctantly – which he explained to me after we did the quiz how he really is an introvert.  I challenged him on this in our discussion, but in the end I was convinced that he was, in fact, and introvert.  I wasn’t sure about the rest of the test because the questions were tedious for him so I answered with what I thought he would say, but I really was’t sure if the other characteristics were accurate or not. 

Then, Today.  I was working on a layout about my daughter and how she is always saying “Look at Me”  “Play with Me”  “Chase Me”  …. and I was connecting that with a conversation I had with a friend of her’s mother who after meeting my daughter for only a few minutes declared “Oh!  She is a total extrovert!” And the other mom was so right – but I’d never really thought about it.  I guess maybe I equated extroverted-ness with loudness and while both of my kids are quite loud in general, my son is much more loud than my daughter – so I incorrectly assumed he was an extrovert and that because she was quieter and generally has only one or two very close friends but is not otherwise a “kid magnet” like my son – I sort of assumed she was more introverted – wrong again!  The combination of the other mom’s observation and my recent experience of being home with my daugher all week as she was home sick from school and I tried to work but didn’t get much done because every 3-4 minutes she’s ask me to “Look at  Me” or “Come to the Bathroom With Me”  (to ward off the imaginary toilet monster – which I think only comes around when she is craving attention) and generally lots of requests for me to engage with her and pay attention to her; these observations and experiences cemented in my brain that my daughter is actually an extovert and needs lots of attention – whereas my son can play happily for hours alone , even though he is also quite social, he doesn’t have as much of that “look at me” thing that she does. 

Today I found the Myers Briggs Test for Kids!!!!  Its a quiz that the parent answers on behalf of the child, it was amazingly accurate for my daugher and I am going to do it for my son as soon as I finish this comment.  I think for parents, this is an amazing source of getting to know your kids better – because as I mentioned above, I had both of my kids pegged incorrectly on the introvert/extrovert characteristic.  I think that the Traits and Strenths lists that the http://www.personalitypage.com  gives you is a great source of journaling prompts for scrapbooking pages about your child.  For example, my daughter is an EFJ so I could make pages about how she is friendly and outgoing and how she dislikes being along, how she thrives on praise and is active and energetic, and how she’s prefer to lead rather than to follow; and also how “finding a way to discipline their EFJ without crusing their spirit  will be a diffcult taksk for many parents”  – so true!  And that EFJ kids will grow up to be ESFJ “Caregivers” or ENFJ “Givers.  The S/N trait is not addressed in the children’s quiz.  What’s also interesting is that I’m an ENFP and I also find that my daughter and I can butt heads – and know I know that its probably because both of us like to be the one in charge.  I can’t wait to show the quiz to my husband and to implement these quizes into my scrapbooking.  I am printing off the free “Portrait of an __ __ __ Child” to include in the scrapbook about my daughter – sometimes I’ll put these types of printouts in a 8.5×11 page protector or sometimes I’ll just slip it between two 12×12 pages. 

If you haven’t figured out your kid’s personality types go to http://personalitypage.com to take the free test which is somewhere around 35 questions - its shorter than the http://www.humanmetrics.com test which is 72 questions.

Ok, that’s all.  But this was a big deal for me & I had to share.  Thank you for all you do with the Paperclipping Roundtable!

:) Katie Scott.

Very fun show. I loved hearing about the personality types and took the test myself. 

His was called Artisan- something. Oh shoot, I can’t remember!

I also kept thinking as I listened, about how scrapbook classes and tutorials that I’ve taken in the past were hard for me to grasp. I was bieng taught how to do something in a ‘better way’ but if that better way is the wrong side of the scale for me appling the instructions it isn’t going to be easy to acomplish. Although I see that making efforts to change an aspect of your personality can reap rewards like being more organised or planning something. ANyway just loved this even if it wasn’t scrap heavy.

Oh btw I took the test and it was way out so I must have gone wrong in my answering and I’m going to do it again.

Thanks everyone.

The email I got from her didn’t indicate she wanted the page turning feature specifically (or I missed it), but with that in mind, you can get this feature with any type of document (Word, PDF, etc.) in issuu.com. Issuu looks very simple and even the extremely “non-techy” could handle it :)

Thanks! This was a super fun show to listen to!

JK! ;)

Yes, I’m an ENFP and I was thinking that same thing about why I like to write in public!

I read about the silly switch in one of the online articles linked indirectly from the test Angie shared. I totally have that too! I can be so serious and talk about serious universal ideas, and then jump up an kareoke and dance my heart out in the dorkiest way possible for my own pure entertainment (and for everybody else’s).

I do remember noticing how your thinking meanders the same way mine does the first time I read your blog! How funny that it turns out the we have the same personality type!

A couple more page-flipping resources that I’ve used on my own sites:
http://pageflipgallery.com/ (WordPress plug-in – you just upload pages as jpgs)
http://issuu.com/ (lots of options – upload your book as a PDF file)

Both of these have free and paid versions. I’ve used the free for both with good results.