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Monday, February 28, 2011

The uniqueness of children's emotions

Surely we often hear that children are born with unique personalities. Parents who have multiple children would quickly realize that every child has a different attitude. First child talkative, solitary second child, third child often succumb, and so forth. How to address a variety of characters, it turns out there is science, you know.

Florence Littauer in his book Personality Plus for Parents to dissect the theory of the temperament of a Roman physiologist named Galen. According to Galen, there are 4 basic personality of man, namely: sanguine (Sanguinists), Choleric (Koleris), Melancholy (Melancholy), and Pleghmatic (Phlegmatis).

In order to more easily understand these four characters, the following picture described Litteaur::

Sanguinists Character
· Keep chattering
. Like looking for attention from people around them
· jovial
· Not regular
· emotional ups and downs
. forgetful
. get bored quickly
· Hypersensitivity to people about their assessment 

Koleris Character
· Brave and enthusiastic
· Productive Workers
· Glad to organize friends in surrounding areas
· Trying to control other people and expect recognition for his achievements
· Like challenged
· fickle temperament
· Hard head
. argumentative
. manipulative
. not sensitive to others' feelings 

Melancholy Character
· Thinking deep
· talented
. Perfectionist
. seriously
. morose
. too sensitive
. to avoid criticism 

Pleghmatis Character
. observing others
. easily entertained
. can be relied upon
. easy to agree
. selfish
. like to tease
. coward
. sluggard
. silently stubborn 
  
Reference : http://pendidikan-rumah.blogspot.com/2007/07/kepribadian-anak-kita-adalah.html 

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