Being an extrovert myself i had no concept of an introvert. I thaught quite children were maybey lacking in confidence. It was when reading this passage that i realised that introversoin and extroversion were just personality traits. What i do know is that a child needs to know that his parents accept him for who he is (good and bad bits). Acceptance doesnt mean you have to like it. Otherwise the child will grow up to not accept that part of himself and be ashamed of it, there for being untrue to himself and being unhappy.

My moto is accept me for who i am, if you dont, your probably not worth knowing anyway.

An example of this situation is. If a parent is totaly against gays and lets there child know this, not knowing if thair child was gay or not, the child will grow to hide this part of them selves in fear of not being accepted, and not accepting it themselves which would cause them to maybe be in denial and very deppressed. This is common. This is at the top end of the scale just to give you an idea of what my point is. It could be anything that would have an inpact on the childs life.

An introvert is a person who is quite, thaughtful and enjoys solitude and privercy. It is not the same thing as being shy and is in no sense abnormal. A person who is introverted is more interested in ideas and inner things than in out side events and people. An extrovert, on the other hand is a child who likes the company of other children, is happy to express him self openly and is at ease in a group. Introverts are more prone to remaine in the margains and to be come aloof which means distant and may have or show exsessive pride or arrogance. They may need alittle more help to share and to join in with group acctivities.

Extroverts are more at ease with other people and find it easyer to join in and to be a part of what is going on around them. Introversion and extroversion are not in any sense abnormal and sometimes as parents we may feal under pressure by other parents or proffesionals to change our child who is and introvert to become more out going and extroverted. If your child is generally happy within himself let him be so. In other words if it's not brocken don't fix it.

(The confident child by Reamonn oDonnchadha)