Parenting Style Quiz: What's Your Parenting Style?
Find your parenting style by taking this parenting style quiz. For your personal insight and entertainment only.
- 1.
When it comes to how your child behaves, is it "your way of the highway?"
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 2.
Do you let your child make mistakes and learn their own lessons, refraining from interfering?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 3.
Cleaning up after my child is my responsibility.
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 4.
Do you let your child make his or her own decisions?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 5.
Do you believe it is important for a child to be responsible for his or her actions and choices?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 6.
Do you feel you need to protect or rescue your child from the world?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 7.
Are you so absorbed in doing what your child wants that you sacrifice your well-being?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 8.
Do you make any and all sacrifices to keep your child happy/quiet?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 9.
Do you give in to your child's tantrums?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 10.
Do you tell your kids what to do instead of letting make their own decisions?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 11.
Are you a firm believer in punishments as opposed to consequences?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 12.
Do you order or command your child to do what you want them to do?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 13.
Do you believe that threats and a raised voice prevent unwanted behavior?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 14.
Are you constantly telling your child how to behave?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 15.
Is your relationship with your child a co-creative partnership?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 16.
When your child is faced with a challenge or problem, do you allow them to handle it, offering assistance only when asked?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 17.
Do you allow your child's problems to be his or her problems?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 18.
Do you and your child work as a team?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 19.
Do you handle everything for your child, allowing them to do as they please?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 20.
Do you issue orders to your child rather than explain boundaries?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 21.
A fight has broken out between your children. You:
- A.
Ask, beg and plead for them to stop.
- B.
Tell them they can continue to argue outside and that they can come in when they've resolved the argument.
- C.
Threaten to punish them if they don't stop - right NOW.
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- 22.
Spanking is an acceptable form of discipline.
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 23.
I do not discipline my child.
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 24.
I let appropriate consequences teach lessons.
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 25.
At the dinner table:
- A.
My child eats his or her food - period.
- B.
My child gets whatever he wants to eat.
- C.
My child gets what he gets and can choose to eat it or not.
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Jun 16, 2009Quiz Created by
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