Sandra interviews her mom to talk about her memories of raising an INFJ daughter.
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Introverted Intuition in Kids
Myers-Briggs Basics
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Full show notes:
Sandra introduces today’s guest: her mom! (AKA Nana) She’s here this episode to talk about her memories of Sandra as an INFJ child.
The two main functions INFJs use are:
“Insightful Intuition”
(Introverted Intuition)
Looking for hidden meanings and patterns and extrapolating them into the bigger picture and an insight for the future.
“Relational Feeling”
(Extraverted Feeling)
Paying attention to the collective needs of the group in order to build relationships and decide in a connected way.
Nana shares her memories of Sandra’s INFJ childhood including:
- Sandra’s tendency to be an observer, watching from the sidelines and listening to what was going on but not talking much
- Sandra never wanted to leave where she was at to go somewhere new, like to activities. She often had headaches or stomach aches or generally complained of not feeling good when it was time to go to an activity
- Sandra wanted to quit a lot of her activities in high school. Nana was worried because as someone with a preference for Extraversion she thought it was unhealthy that Sandra wanted to do less, but it turned out, Sandra was learning about herself and her need to focus on just a couple of things
- Sandra was not great with the practical, routine needs of daily life, but neither was her brother and neither was Nana (both also use Intuition) so it didn’t seem that out of the ordinary
- Sandra did not want to have to take piano lessons that required regular, prescribed practice, but she loved playing on her own and taught herself how to play, following her own spurts of creative energy
- Nana (with her Imaginative Intuition) would have so many creative ideas that Sandra would want to participate in at first, but then would get tired of and have trouble following through on because of the practical details and extraversion involved
- Sandra became more confident in her creative ideas and more disciplined in follow-through of them when she was in highschool, often being pointed out by her teachers as highly creative
Leave a comment: Do you have an INFJ child? Do you resonate with Nana’s experience raising Sandra? Or were you an INFJ child? Were you like Sandra?