Sandra and Em talk about what the Myers-Briggs Sensing vs Intuition preference pair looks like in parents.
Full show notes:
Em tells about her “re-proposal” from her husband over the weekend.
Sensing vs Intuition
- Check out episode 4 for Sensing vs Intuition in kids
- How you prefer take in information from the world
- affects how you communicate with your family, how you learn or teach, how you work etc
- Sensing: Prefer to deal with details, facts and the practical.
- Intuition: Prefer to deal in theories, ideas and the big picture.
Sensing:
- Focus on what can be experienced and verified
- Observe and remember
specific facts and details - Trust experience
- Understand ideas and theories through practical applications
Intuition:
- Focus on patterns, meanings, and interconnections
- Observe and remember relationships among ideas
and events - Trust inspiration
- Want to clarify ideas and theories before putting them into practice
- Sensing Parents strengths
- Thorough in taking care of the basic practical details involved with parenting
- Naturally gravitates toward teaching children the hands-on, practical skills they will need in the real world, such as tying shoes or cooking a meal
- Demonstrates love in concrete ways and by taking care of the children’s needs, for example, making their favorite dinner, doing their makeup before a dance recital, etc.
- Enjoys providing children with sensory experiences
- Values family traditions
- Puts importance on the more practical side of intelligence, wanting children to gain common sense and applied knowledge through experience
- Likes to create comfortable physical surroundings in the home environment
- Intuition Parents Strengths
- Enjoys brainstorming solutions to issues with children and offering them choices
- Looks for and encourages the unique potential in each child
- Brings imagination into approaching ordinary and routine tasks, in order to make these things more fun for both themselves and their children
- Enjoys explaining ideas and perspectives behind everyday experiences
- Values the conceptual side of intelligence, appreciating a child’s insights and flashes of originality
- Seeks out new techniques and perspectives in parenting
- Is able to keep sight of the “big picture” of issues, seeing many sides and perspectives
- Values parenting as a meaningful experience
- Sensing Parent struggles
- May struggle to appreciate or join in with a child’s imagination or fantasy play
- Can be overly focused on details and small incidents, getting stuck on the “small stuff”
- Has a more difficult time understanding their child who may be different from themselves or from what they consider “normal”
- Feels overwhelmed by all the details and “to do” items, having a difficult time stepping back to prioritize and find perspective
- Intuition parent struggles
- Often grapple with unrealistic expectations, feeling discouraged when real life falls short of the ideals in their head
- Have difficulty living in the here and now and taking pleasure in the current moment
- Struggle to know how much time and effort a task will take, such as getting ready for a family trip, leading to tendencies to either over or under commit
- Difficulty remembering to give children detailed, specific instructions
- Sensing is the dominant/rewarded preference in the world
- Sensing/(and Judging) being the dominant and most common function in school/work etc
- You may be someone who prefers intuition but has trained your sensing side very well in order to get along in school/work
- Can you sort out which is the preference vs which is the skill you’ve trained yourself in?
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The Sensing v. Intuition in parents episodes were SO helpful for me! (I’m still working my way through all the episodes to get caught up to the current ones). It has helped me figure out so many of the arguments my husband (IS [not sure of the rest of him yet]) and I (ENFJ [still trying to work out if I’m truly a J or have just learned to be one]) and I have, esp. over parenting. It was also such a relief to finally have some validation for why I abhor details and that it doesn’t make me a bad or less successful person, it’s just a different way of going through life. Not surprisingly, my husband is an attorney (and loves the details and research of that job) and I’m a professor who focuses on large, themes and trends in communication in media. Love your podcast so much.
Ah thank you so much for the comment! I love to hear that people are really getting something out of all this. And that is such a great takeaway, that one preference over another is never better/worse inherently – just different, with its own strengths and struggles on either side. <3