This book is timeless in its content and applicable to all ages of parents/grandparents and children/grandchildren. The book includes a profile to help you establish the personalities of each child/parent and then offers natural characteristics of each personality and how they interact with one another. You will find the strengths and weaknesses of each one and how to work out the struggles that accompany those characteristics. I have personally used this book over and over to help me understand my own children and grandchildren. In addition, as a retreat speaker,a MOPS speaker, and a presenter at parenting seminars, this book is the focus of my presentations. After people buy this book and read it, I receive calls to have one-on-one conversations to help guide them in better relationships with their child/children. This book is truly a gift to parents in helping them understand how their child functions and how they can reinforce the strengths and help overcome the weaknesses. Read it and find a new relationship with your child/grandhild.

I tell you what, if you want a book written about personalities in good humor and great fun, Personality Plus for Parents just about says it all! Not only is Personality Plus for Parents informative and enlightening but it's extremely humorous as well. If Florence Littaeur decides to quit whatever she is doing right now, she should consider writing a fiction novel. I don't know about you, but I would DEFINITELY get one.

Back to the topic in hand...deciphering the personalities of our children. To be honest, I know exactly what kind of children I am raising. I know precisely what makes them tick because I am quite sure I didn't choose to stay home to raise them for nothing. I want to know them inside out, and that's exactly the situation right now. I know my kids very well. But that doesn't necessarily mean that I KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM. Both my kids have opposing personalities, as different as Pluto and Sun can be. Their personalities clash like crazy and who would live on if they were to share a room. Jared is lazy and fun-loving beyond words. He's keen to learn and excited about almost everything. He's the kind of kid who gets excited about learning how to say `detergent'. Joshua, in the meantime, lives in his own world. He would rather brood about something and then dawdle on his Doodle Board. But this is not about my kids but my point is that before reading this Personality Plus for Parents by Florence Littauer, I wasn't so sure what to do with their behavioral differences.

But now, every time a kid, my kid (funny calling them `a' kid) misbehaves, her advice rings in my head. So, if you ask me if the book is good and useful or not, I'd say `Boy, is it ever!'

Like `Rich dad, Poor dad' and `Chicken Soup' series, there are many different versions made for different people. There's chicken soup for parents, there's chicken soup for gays, there's chicken soup for the Chinese mother, there's chicken soup....for say....clowns! Before I picked up this book, I read Personality Plus which was written for normal people, with or without kids. This book discusses the personalities of children, how to discover their personalities from very early on and how to deal with them so that we can help them realize their full potential.

I like it that there are loads of examples in the book, scenarios that you can instantly apply to what happens right in front of your own TV set. You read and then go, `Yeah, that like so happened just 5 minutes ago!'. And let me tell you, the scenarios and examples really helped me apply the methods she introduced to the book.

One thing is missing, though. A very strategic method of applying all her theories and advice on our children, individually. In Personality Plus, she merely explained how our children behave and how to deal with them, in general. But there's no definitive plan on how to curb future potential behavioral problems.

But apart from that, this book is not only a valuable friend and filled to the brim with information but it's wildly funny and entertaining as well.

So, for parents, whatever it's worth, go get it and read it in the bath tub and enjoy it.