I think my mistake was that i have read "The Wisdom of the Enneagram" by Riso/Hudson, which was very in depth and extremely helpful with my personal evolution. I was looking for the same experience with this book, but did not find it. I feel like it just scraped the surface and I didn't really learn that much. Now, my 11 and 13 year olds got more out of it than i did. sooooo, i suppose it all depends on what you are looking for. There is not much help in the how to raise the 9 types...