The Parenting Magic of Understanding Your Child’s Inner World
What if your child’s behavior isn’t just behavior—but a mirror? A mirror reflecting the emotional climate of your home, the subtleties of your personality, and the energetic field you unknowingly create every day.
From birth to age six, your child lives in a world of pure emotion, energy, and impressionability. They adapt to the emotional atmosphere you provide long before they can articulate their feelings. Your child doesn’t just inherit your genetics—they inherit your patterns. Not consciously, but through the subtle mirroring of how you handle emotion, express (or suppress) needs, and relate to yourself and others.
The Enneagram World of the Child invites you into that inner world—not with judgment or diagnosis, but with awe and attunement. It’s not a manual for labeling or typing your child. It’s a compassionate guide for recognizing how your personality shapes the environment in which your child’s personality is forming.
Imagine witnessing your child’s emotional landscape without needing to fix, guide, or interpret it through the lens of your own history. That’s the gift this book offers: not certainty but space—space for your child to become who they are—not who you unconsciously expect them to be.
Discover how to nurture their resilience and emotional health while understanding your patterns.
Resilience isn’t something we teach—it’s something we model. And emotional health doesn’t grow from perfection but from presence. Your child’s core sense of self is shaped not by your parenting strategies but by your way of being.
Using the Enneagram as a map, this book shows how each parent’s Type creates a particular emotional ecosystem. A Type One parent may unintentionally equate love with correctness. A Type Three may link worth with achievement. Type Five may retreat emotionally, teaching a child that feelings are too much. These patterns aren’t flaws. They’re invitations.
When you begin to see your reactions as part of a larger pattern that you inherited and are now transmitting, you open the door to something revolutionary: conscious parenting—the kind that nurtures not only your child’s development but also your transformation.
Each chapter of The Enneagram World of the Child explores how specific Type dynamics interact with foundational developmental needs: acceptance, attachment, emotional expression, and curiosity. You’ll meet real families navigating these challenges—not as case studies but as companions on a shared journey.
This book won’t give you the “right” way to parent. It will provide you with a new way to see—yourself, your child, and the sacred dance between you. A way that’s grounded in presence, not perfection. Spaciousness, not certainty.
When you shift from reacting to relating, from fixing to feeling, something beautiful happens: your child grows resilient, not because life is easy but because you’ve shown them how to meet it with compassion and truth.
And you? You become not just a parent—but a participant in the miracle of becoming.