Energy Profiling along with you. If they aren’t interested, consider the possibility that your child has a reason. Ask yourself which patterns in your family create resistance to understanding their true nature. Which expectations have been placed on your children that pressure them to deny their true natures?
Children younger than three to four years old are not yet capable of being included in this conversation. That doesn’t mean you should wait to learn their Type! You can still identify your young child’s Energy Profile through the information and stories shared in the next few sections. When you honor your child’s nature from a very young age, you will find that they act more naturally cooperative and happy (and you’ll avoid those twos that are supposedly so terrible!).
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JAKE AND MAX’S STORY
What Changes When You Know Their Type
Eight-year-old Jake had a hard time with his younger brother, Max. He expressed a lot of anger and blamed Max for things, even though four-year-old Max was always trying to get his approval. His parents experienced a challenge in trying to help their boys have positive interactions.
When their mother discovered Energy Profiling, she soon learned that both Jake and Max identified with a dominant Type 4 expression. They both have naturally structured, exact natures. They both felt very strongly—even from a young age—about being their own authority. You can imagine how they could push each other’s emotional buttons.
One night, Jake’s mom was tucking him into bed after reading about Energy Profiling. She told Jake that he and Max were lucky to have each other because they thought the same and understood each other. She shared some of their tendencies that were similar.
Since that night, Jake’s mom says, “It has been night and day. Seriously. I thought I had to do something more drastic, or bigger than that. All I did was talk to them. It has helped Jake more. I think he feels that he now has somebody in the family that gets him.”
A few days later, she took her boys to the local library. Jake was using the self-scanner to check out their books when one of the books wouldn’t scan. Max grabbed the book from his brother and his mom says, “I was ready for the meltdown and the fit.” But Jake just let Max help him with the book. Then he took the book down and put it in the pile. Max grabbed the other books, put them on the scanner, and Jake took them off. They worked together.
His mother says she hasn’t done one thing different besides talk to them. Just understanding each other’s natures helped both parents and siblings to support and cooperate with each other.
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One last note before we look at the four Types. All children—no matter their Type—have certain basic needs and traits in common. All children are innocent and active. They all possess childlike curiosity, imagination, and a desire to explore this world. Every child needs to be validated by their parents.
Most importantly, children need to be loved and accepted for who they are. Meeting that need is the most important reason you could read this book, for both yourself and your children.
It’s time to discover your child’s unique Energy Profile and use that knowledge to become a Child Whisperer.
The 4 Types of Children
B efore you take an in-depth look at each of the four Types, let me introduce you briefly to all of them.
What follows here is just an overview. It is not meant to serve as your only assessment tool. If one of these brief explanations looks like it may describe your child, you may want to skip to that section to read it at length.
While children express all four Energy Types to varying degrees, each child will always lead with a dominant natural expression, followed by a secondary Energy Type.
Type 1: The Fun-loving Child
Primary Connection to the World : Social
Primary Movement: Bouncy and random
Primary Need: To have fun and happy parents
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