How to care for introverts

• Respect their need for privacy and to spend time on their own
• Never embarrass them in public
• Let them observe first in new situations
• Give them time to think. Don’t demand instant answers
• Don’t interrupt them.
• Give them advanced notice of expected changes in their lives
• Give them 15 min warnings to finish whatever they are doing before calling them to dinner or moving on to the next activity.
• Reprimand them privately
• Teach them new skills in privately rather than in public
• Do not push them to make lots of frds
• Respect their introversion. Don’t try to remake them into extraverts