Parents puzzle over questions like this. The answers aren’t always simple. Nobody can pretend that an app (or even a team of child psychologists) will provide them all - but DevelopYourChild® could give insights.

DevelopYourChild® is easy to use and can provide practical, real, insights and ideas... based on Personality Type (also known as Persona). Pioneered by psychologist Carl Jung, it’s a popular and effective psychology tool to aid understanding of differences between people.

A few questions are used to help the parent evaluate or narrow down the Personality Type of the child. Then a range of output information can be browsed for that and other Personality Types, including:

- Hints and tips for interacting more effectively
- Disposition, how particular Personality Types may prefer to interact and play
- How they may prefer to communicate
- What might be helpful when they get displeased or cranky
- How they may prefer to learn
- How they may react to school
- Which extracurricular activities they may prefer and excel at
- How others may see them
- What sort of career they may be drawn to
- Famous people who might share that Personality Type

Sometimes the initial Type/Persona identified can be startlingly accurate. Other times it can take a little longer or it is less obvious. But to focus too much on the details of the match misses the point: the main benefit of understanding Type is not to 'Typecast', but to raise awareness and to encourage thinking about different personal needs and ways to interact.


Limitations

The concept of Psychological Type provides an overall framework for understanding differences between children, and between children and adults.

The descriptions are based on observation, research and analysis of behaviour and preferences. Because all children are unique and still developing, they may not show all of the qualities or behaviours described or may not exhibit them with the same level of intensity. So the information presented in the app should not be taken as advice for interacting with individual children. But the general description should be familiar if the Type has been correctly identified.

This app is intended to give only an overview of the value of understanding Psychological Type, and is not capable of delivering an individual in-depth analysis for every child.

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