Daycare Kids & Myers-Briggs.

We put our 15-month old son in the nursery at church Sunday. When we picked him up the nursery workers were gushing about how sweet he was and how well he had done being with them for the first time.

“He just came right in and made himself at home! Does he go to daycare?”

I nodded, and I knew why they had asked what really amounted to a rhetorical question. They assumed he was a daycare baby because he adjusted so readily to a strange classroom.

I know that my baby is very “easy” socially. He likes people and his general disposition is laid back, friendly, and happy. But I also know that he popped out that way. This is his natural personality. So daycare, despite the church nursery volunteer’s assumption, is not entirely responsible for the fact that they didn’t have a screaming, sobbing woddler (baby-toddler) on their hands.

Is daycare is reinforcing his natural bent? If he were home most of the time with me or with a nanny, would he perhaps lose some of his instinctive ease with new people and places? Read More.

Amy Smith is a 40-year old mother of three: a 19-year old daughter and sons ages 5 and 1. She works as an executive at a Nashville publishing company and contributes to the Around the Watercooler column on mommytrackd.com.