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I looked it up on the wikipedia and I really didn't understand. It has to do with your feminine and masculine side. Not sure though but maybe it is "exact opposite"? I don't know but we sure do get along well. In fact I wish I had more of his easy going E traits. I try to be more extroverted but it is draining to me. He just eats it up!

DS is an ENFP and DH is an INFP. I am close to line on just about everything, but I've settled down over the years to a pretty solid counselor type INFJ with the I and J especially getting more into the solid range each passing year.

BTW Regis Filbin (sp?) is an ENFP like DS and I had just thought a few weeks before I learned that that DS really kind of reminded me of Regis--loves the limelight, quick with a joke, cynical but not unkind. I'm not sure that I want to raise a baby Regis, but it sure crackede me up!

Well, THIS cracked me up!

Is that your final answer? (sorry, couldn't resist!)

Hi - I'm not resurrecting Myers-Briggs; I'm just updating on the named topic. I wanted to thank everyone for their advice. DS4 took his SBV yesterday, and I know your comments on how to prepare him helped a lot. A funny thing about breaks - I told him ahead of time that if he wanted more breaks than the one scheduled, he could ask for them. Well, he was having so much fun, he came to have a snack break, ate 3 bites of melon, said "I'm done!", and ran back to the testing area by himself! Very unlike this child who is very wary of new situations, so I know that the prepping worked. He also reported (in his own language followed by translation) that the test was very, very, very, very fun. Thanks everyone!

I'm so glad! Not surprised, but glad!

Thanks for the update. I was wondering if your DS had taken the test yet.

You can see why we all laugh when school adminstrators talk about how stressful testing is for kids. Yeah, um, not so much! At least not for every single GT kid I've ever heard about. I'm sure there are exceptions somewhere, but I've never met them, heard about them (except from administrators) or read about them.

Yeah, DS11 got through 4th grade in part due to being given testing through the school. He mostly loved it, exect the boring parts. They started him at age-normal, so it took them a long, long time to get to his ceiling - and they pulled him out of the classroom for 45 minutes at a time - so you can see that he spend months and months getting tested one-on-one which acted like a GT pull out program for one. Our district doesn't have any programing for GT, so I thought that this was ironic- to say the least.