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.
Cleaning up after my child is my responsibility.
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 2.
Do you let your child make his or her own decisions?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 3.
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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- 4.
Do you give in to your child's tantrums?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 5.
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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- 6.
Are you a firm believer in punishments?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 7.
Are you constantly telling your child how to behave?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 8.
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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- 9.
Do you allow your child's problems to be his or her problems?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 10.
Do you and your child work as a team?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 11.
Do you handle everything for your child, allowing them to do as they please?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 12.
Do you issue orders to your child rather than explain boundaries?
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 13.
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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- 14.
I let appropriate consequences teach lessons.
- A.
Always
- B.
Sometimes
- C.
Never
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- 15.
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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