Title Tuesday: Nurture by Nature

Welcome to  Title Tuesday, my favorite day of the week! This day is dedicated to book suggestions, news, cartoons, and reviews. I write this portion of my blog because I am a big believer in the motivational speaker Charlie Jones' quote which says, "You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” I try to meet as many new people as possible and to read everything I can. This is my way of sharing that information with you. You can see a visual summary of the books I have reviewed for both adults and children over on my Facebook page. If you are interested in understanding my rating system for books you can read my Book Review Explanation here and What I Believe here. If you want to check out what I am currently reading or what I want to read next, friend me on Goodreads!

I am finally back up and running after having our sweet baby girl. Miss K is officially 9 weeks old and is sweet as can be. I am loving getting to know her and her fabulous little quirks. We were in the hospital after she was born for FOUR WHOLE DAYS. It truly felt like forever since I was hardly in the hospital for two days after each of the boys. I used the time well however because I spent the entire time either nursing Miss K or reading. I finished 6 books while we were waiting to get to go home so I am gong to share those with y'all in the weeks to come. 

The first book that I want to share is an older one, but still very relevant. Nurture by Nature by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger was recommended to me by a friend because I was having a hard time jiving with one of my boys. After determining each of our personality types I can confirm that we are all VERY different! Nurture by Nature helped me to understand why. 

Tieger and Barron-Tieger do an excellent job of making the Myers-Briggs personality profiles simple and straightforward. 

There are two parts to this book. 

Part one explains each of the 8 personality traits (I or E, S or N,  F or T,  J or P) and how people typically express them. 

In part two of the book the authors take the reader o an in-depth tour of each of the possible combinations of personalities (there are 16 possibilities total). 

With real life stories, anecdotes and advice Nurture by Nature helps the adult reader understand how best to relate to a child based off of their innate personality and uniqueness. Their tips and tricks help to clarify what to do if the child's personality is different from the reader's personality. This could potentially vastly improve family dynamics if parents and children could learn to relate to each other well despite personality differences.

All in all I have to say that Nurture by Nature is a must have book for anyone that works with children regularly whether at home or in a professional setting. I give it a solid A+ and strongly encourage you to pick up a copy. This is a book that I would recommend buying rather than borrowing so that you can mark in the pages, take notes, and refer back to it often.