Nighthawk
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- Joined
- May 23, 2007
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- MBTI Type
- INTP
Yes, I think your stile of parenting should depend heavily on the type of kids you have. However I think that your type is determind for a large part at how you raise your kids in their first years of life as well and that raising your kid in a given way will make that he has a bigger chance of turning out a specific type. Somebody should actually study this though. I think it's is an interesting theory but I don't know anything about parenting.
I've wrestled with this one quite a bit, and I'm still not sure where I come down on the nature vs. nurture debate. Sometimes I think we're hard wired with a certain template at or before birth ... other times I believe that how we are raised affects it. Unfortunately I wasn't there very much during my son's early years (deployed with the military) ... and didn't acquire my step-daughter until she was already 9 years old. I'm not sure what kind of impact I could have had. Ironically, my son turned out to be an INTP just like me. We get along quite well now, although I was somewhat of a prick while he was growing up. I would probably have been a better parent if I'd waited until my 30s to have children ... but that's all water under the bridge.