Update On DYTing the Kiddo

So yesterday I watched this great video by Carol Tuttle, and it was about how to type your baby. In it, she says that you can tell what primary Type your baby is from birth, and often before they are even born! After having watched it, I have changed my kiddo’s Type order, because what I noticed about his personality above all else, while he was still incubating, was that strong, strong movement all the time.

Why Type 1 and not Type 3? Well, he was very, very active in utero, but his movements weren’t very aggressive, like a Type 3’s might sometimes be. I never got the real solid kick in the ribs. He was just rolling around all the time, sticking his little elbows and knees and hands out so that I could see them.

So as a revision, here’s the kiddo’s Type order:

1/2/3/4.

My slight case of OCD loves how that came out!

And for anyone who would like to watch the video, here you go:

Typing Myself & My Family

Carol Tuttle has a great little checklist to help decide on Types based off strictly physiology.

So using this, I typed out myself, my husband, and my nine year old son. Here are our results:

Myself-   2/4/1/3
Hubby-   4/3/1/2
Son-       2/1/3/4

These kinds of things I find to be extremely fascinating. They really help me figure people out, I think. I think that’s the Type 2 “get all the details” nature. I’m never finished with this journey. I always want to know more.

I went back and forth on 2/4 or 4/2 for quite a while, but finally decided after watching one of Carol’s videos. In it, she talked about how 2/4 is a HUGE pile-maker. They know where everything is, and it’s organized to their standard, but doesn’t look or seem that way to others. And all of a sudden, I went “AHA! THAT’S me!”

Hubby? Always knew he was a 4. He’s got that intensity and perfectionism about him. I’ve been more interested in finding the secondary, tetriary, and inferior types. Couldn’t figure this out until I did the test, then went and watched a video on 4/3 vs. 3/4. Bingo.

Son has been something of a challenge, but I think how this landed works quite well. I knew there was some outward movement, for sure. This kid is quite the yapper. So I thought, must be Type 1/something. But he’s also quite the sensitive little bugger, and gets frustrated and upset quite easily sometimes, which got me thinking 2. I thought it must be 1/2 because he’s always so outwardly focused, but thinking back I realize this isn’t the case. First, before anything else, he’s more the sensitive kid, and has been ever since he was a baby. But his constant yapping made me kind of overlook that. Also as a baby, he Could Not Stop Moving, Ever. He was always in motion. So I can see how I thought his energy must be Type 1 for sure.

Anyway, some interesting thoughts here.