Sandra interviews Elena Nola, an INTJ parent of an ENXP child, to talk about what it’s like parenting a child who uses the Imaginative Intuition (Extraverted Intuition) function in Myers-Briggs.
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Full show notes:
For background information on the Imaginative Intuition function in kids, check out episode 43.
If you’re wondering what a cognitive function is – listen to episode 39: Intro to Cognitive Functions
Sandra introduces Elena Nola:
Elena is a parent with INTJ preferences who actually uses Myers-Briggs type in her work as an Integration Mentor where she helps her clients to optimize their lives and break old patterns of thinking, being, and relating that are keeping them trapped in fear, disconnection, and exhaustion.
Sandra gives an overview function of Imaginative Intuition that Elena’s son Tycho uses.
“Imaginative Intuition”
(Extraverted Intuition)
Looking for future possibilities, theories and potentialities, to imagine scenarios that are way outside of the box.
Elena tells us about her son who drives with the Imaginative Intuition function, including:
- She sees herself as his facilitator. As someone who prefers introversion, she has a hard time getting all of his relational energy needs met herself, so she sees it as her job to find other ways to get his needs met. For example: setting up playdates.
- He gets energy by putting things together in new ways, like when they were reading a dinosaur book and he worked himself up into a ball of energy by coming up with all different silly combinations of words
- When he watches youtube videos, he usually has a pad of paper next to him or asks for materials so that he can actually work with the ideas he’s learning as they come at him
- He is definitely a boundary pusher and likes to negotiate and try to see what he can get out of a situation
- She loves how his imagination works and the funny things that he likes to talk about like “Who would win in a fight between Godzilla and Cthulhu?”
- As someone who uses Insightful Intuition (the introverted version of intuition) She finds it exhausting to meet the amount of time he needs for interaction.
- As a single parent, she has found it very beneficial to move in with her parents so that there are three adults to help meet his interactional needs
- He moves very quickly from one thing to the next and blows through a room, often leaving it in a state of disarray
- Their biggest conflict between their personality types has more to do with Tycho’s second function (Resonant Feeling) clashing with Elena’s second function (Efficient Thinking) which we agreed we’ll have to get more into in a subsequent episode!
Leave a comment: Do you relate with Elena’s experience parenting her child with ENXP preferences?