These Are The Days Ep 146: Kids and the Enneagram? (A hack for balanced kids)
Apr 23, 2025
Dive into the world of the Enneagram as a parenting tool! Discover how it can enhance your understanding of your child's personality and emotional intelligence. The hosts share three insightful questions to guide your kids' growth and balance. They also explore personal development, confronting challenges like procrastination, and how knowing your child's traits can boost their emotional maturity. Plus, learn about the complexities of the Enneagram beyond just good and evil, and how being present can transform your relationships!
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Dynamic Enneagram Framework
- The Enneagram is a dynamic personality system with nine types and three triads centered on thinking, feeling, or doing.
- It helps understand ourselves and others deeply, beyond static labels or personality traits.
Use 3 Key Questions for Balance
- Ask your kids tailored questions to develop their less dominant centers: "What do you think about that?", "What are you going to do about that?", and "How do you feel about that?"
- This approach fosters balanced emotional, cognitive, and action-oriented growth.
Balance Key to Healthy Development
- Children often have one dominant Enneagram center and one repressed, which becomes clearer around age 11.
- Helping kids develop balance across feeling, thinking, and doing supports healthier, more capable adults.