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Thanks tim and Nic [with a reminder from Merry!]

Your personality: Stress Lover

You just love it when things get frantic… and doesn’t everyone else know it? You buzz around the office at 100mph, with your quick-fire repartee and snappy decision-making. Which is great for getting things done – or at least giving that impression – but make sure you know where the line is. Don’t lose that focus, but remember you’ve got a life outside work too.

Your office role: Hostage

You feel trapped into empathy with management, which leaves you powerless in negotiations over your future. You cling to the hope that your loyalty and good behaviour will one day be rewarded. Surely it’s only a matter of time…

Your job attitude: Mother Hen

The people you work with are like your babies. Little children to be protected like fluffy little chicks. No-one cares like you do about your team – and you can’t bear to see them upset. Even if change is needed, you would resist it rather than see your brood dispersed.

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Career Inventory Test Results

Extroversion ||||||||||||||| 43%
Emotional Stability |||||||||||||||||| 53%
Orderliness |||||||||||||||||| 60%
Altruism |||||||||||||||||| 53%
Inquisitiveness |||||||||||||||||||||||| 76%
You are a Planner, possible professions include – management consultant, economist, scientist, computer programmer, environmental planner, new business developer, curriculum designer, administrator, mathematician, psychologist, neurologist, biomedical researcher, strategic planner, civil engineer, intellectual properties attorney, designer, editor/art director, inventor, informational-graphics designer, financial planner, judge.

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What kind of Mother am I?

Well, obviously none-at all , but what the heck – seeing as Merry has me down as an honuary Girly :-)

I was somewaht torn on the first question between Intoverted and Extroverted – I’d ahve myself down as Intraverted, but the description of how that impacts on the parenting style doesn’t seem to match to me.

?Your type is: entp? ?The ?Independence? Mother

?When I held my babies, I always faced them outward so they could take in the world.?
Full of energy and confident in her own self-sufficiency and competence, the ENTP mother encourages her children?as a role model and as a teacher?to be independent and confident on their own in the world.
A ?big picture? person, she points out options and possibilities along the way. Objective and logical as well, the ENTP wants her children to evaluate their choices and learn from the consequences of their own decisions.
The ENTP mother is resourceful and action-oriented. She likes going places and doing things with her children, exploring all that life has to offer. She is less concerned with rules, routines, and schedules. Introducing her children to new concepts and activities, challenging them, and stimulating their intellectual development are top priorities.

Alternativley I get the

INTP – The ?Love of Learning? Mother?

Which was the same as Helen

What type of mother are you

From mother crone’s homeschool

go here

Your type is: intp ?The ?Love of Learning? Mother

?I keep the encyclopedia in the kitchen so we can look up things together while we eat.?

  • Intellectually curious and patient, the INTP mother relishes those times with a child when they are learning something interesting together. Whether they?re at the zoo or computer terminal, she sparks to answering his or her ?whys? with in-depth responses or new knowledge.
  • The INTP mother is also objective and introspective. She listens to and discusses children?s ideas and questions as she would those of a peer, fostering self-esteem and confidence. Open and non-directive, she allows children the freedom to do for themselves and quietly encourages them to believe they can do it.
  • Independence, autonomy, intellectual development, and self-reliance are probably the INTP?s highest priorities for her children. An avid reader, she naturally imparts an appreciation and love of reading as well.
  • Drawn to all types of learning, the INTP may also value her mothering experience for all the new insights about life it provides her.

Actually, going through old blogs, I am usually an ISFP – so just putting that in gives:
Your type is: isfp ?The ?Giving? Mother

?A people pleaser from Day One, it took me 30 years to
figure out I could say ?no.??

  • Quiet and unassuming in her devotion, the ISFP mother is responsive to her children?s needs, offering behind-the-scenes love and support. She is gentle and non-intrusive, flexible and adaptable.
  • A ?be there? mother, the ISFP takes pleasure in physically caring for her children and doing for them. Her best times might be ?doing little things? with each child one-on-one.
  • More than anything, the ISFP mother wants her children to know they are loved. And she enjoys being needed in return.
  • Dedicated to raising children who are responsible and care for others, she favors a non-directive approach: instilling values by setting a good example. She may be a strong role model for community service.


hmm! i prefer the first option – have been an INTJ before as well,

Your type is: intj ??The ?Individual Integrity? Mother

?My kids are better off arguing their own point of view than telling me, ?But everyone else is doing it.??

  • Individualistic and independent, the INTJ mother is both a role model and teacher of how to be an individual and live life with integrity. She is introspective, defining her own success from within, and generally confident in her decisions. She is unlikely to be persuaded by her children saying, ?But all the other mothers are doing it.?
  • The INTJ is competent in providing for her children?s basic needs, but she is likely more focused on developing their self-esteem and confidence. Observant and insightful, she puts great importance on independent thinking and self-sufficiency, yet she is comfortable providing protection and boundaries.
  • Self-motivated and intense, the INTJ works hard and takes life seriously. As a mother, she lives for those moments when she can impart knowledge and offer her children perspectives on life and important issues.

?so I guess i am probably a mixture – as always! I think the first is more what I aim to be, but I do see myself in the other 2 as well. what does anybody else think?

The Last Chapter

No, not the end of the blog.

We’ve got the rather nice all-in-one edition of the Winnie The Pooh Stories and the poems etc. that was published a couple of years back, ours was a 10 quid job from the Book People, if you ever see it snap it up.

Anyway, on Tuesday read the last chapter? of The House at Pooh Corner to SB at bedtime. I know it’s daft, seeing as it’s only a story and it’s a toy bear. but it always brings a lump to my throat and a tear to the eye when I read it (For anyone who hasn’t read it, Christopher Robin is 6 and is going off to boarding school – I assume – and takes Pooh off to a special place to say goodbye, but he can’t bring himself to actually tell Pooh that he will be going away)

Thanks nic – freudian inventory

Freudian Inventory Results
Oral (56%) you appear to have a good balance of independence and interdependence knowing when to accept help and when to do things on your own.
Anal (50%) you appear to have a good balance of self control and spontaneity, order and chaos, variety and selectivity.
Phallic (36%) you appear to have negative issues regarding sexuality and/or have an uncertain sexual identity.
Latency (53%) you appear to have a good balance of abstract knowledge seeking and practicality, dealing with real world responsibilities while still cultivating your abstract and creative faculties and interests.
Genital (53%) you appear to be somewhere between a progressive/openminded and regressive/closeminded outlook on life.
so apart from not wanting a one night stand, I’m a bit boring really!
Big Five Word Test Results
Extroversion (41%) moderately low which suggests you are reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive.

Accommodation (58%) moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly kind natured, trusting, and helpful at the expense of your own individual development (martyr complex).

Orderliness (47%) medium which suggests you are moderately organized, structured, and self controlled while still remaining flexible, varied, and fun.
Emotional Stability (44%) moderately low which suggests you are worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious.
Inquisitiveness (67%) moderately high which suggests you are intellectual, curious, imaginative but possibly not very practical.

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oh, and on this? 92%

SB did this fairy, and the others

its her as a real fairy

work me vs home me

vs

please don’t let a psychologist get hold of it though!

first seen on Jax’s blog

create your own here

The important things in life

Main computer in the house has been out of action for most of? a week (for seemingly no good reason really – it’s working fine now, but absorbed too much fiddling time).

But we can email, blog, browse and Flickr? – so the important stuff is back up and running :-) with helen being busy writing a presentation among other things it’s all gone? bit wonky here – no flickring for? about 10 days…..

Normal service will be resumed shorlty

Tooth’s gone.


No tooth!

Originally uploaded by Scrumbledelicious.

Here is the essential piccie :-)

We have the Seed Bunny, rather than the tooth fairy, since we had a book called The Seed Bunny? (abvout the rabbit equivalent of the tooth fairy) – which is rather nice, since she was excited to get a pack of seeds. And of course it’s just about in tiem for us to sow them
She did wonder today what happens to the teeth it colects, again she email was the asnwer, as we could email him to ask what he does with them.

Of course the tooth did come out in the middle of a car journey – ‘I’m bleeding’. Did we have any tissues etc. in the car….?

Another little milestone passed.

oh dear! thanks sarah