What’s Your Parenting Style?
Do you say? Yes? To whatever your child demands? Or do you say? If you don? T clean up your room in a minute, you will be grounded? ? Take this quiz to learn about your parenting style.
After completing the questionnaire, read about the four types of parenting styles, reflect on your answers and make changes in your style, if necessary.
- 1.
It is your 15th wedding anniversary. Your children wish to organize a grand party on the eve of your wedding day. But your husband and you wish to celebrate it at the orphanage close to your heart. What do you do?
- A.
Inform the children that it is your day and that you wish to celebrate it the way you want to.
- B.
Allow your children to take over and organize the party to please your children.
- C.
Tell them that you are in no mood for celebration as there is no need to celebrate a marriage.
- D.
Make arrangements to spend lunch time at the orphanage and attend the party your children are organizing in the evening.there is no need to celebrate a marriage.
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- 2.
Your family consists of six members. Your in-laws are diabetic while your husband has high cholesterol. Your teenage children love Italian and Chinese food but you prefer simple north Indian food. What meals do you serve your family?
- A.
I will follow north Indian, diabetic and cholesterol-free diet for everyone at home. I will give money to my children so they can enjoy Chinese and Italian food on certain days of the week.
- B.
Prepare a weekly menu in advance to ensure a balanced diet, keeping in mind the preferences of all members.
- C.
I will follow a diabetic and cholesterol-free diet at home. Even the children have to eat the same food as eating out is bad.
- D.
I will serve whatever I like, irrespective of their preferences.
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- 3.
Your daughter has cut her hair short and streaked it, too, without informing you about it. You
- A.
Will be angry as she took the decision without consulting you.
- B.
Will tell your spouse that she has the right to do what she wants with her hair.
- C.
Will tell her that you are upset and that you would have wanted her to discuss it with you.
- D.
Will ignore it as you don’t care what she does with her hair.
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- 4.
Your son performs exceedingly well in his music class. What will you say to him?
- A.
I will buy you an iPad for making me proud.
- B.
Anyone who works hard will do well.
- C.
For the efforts you put in, you should have done much better.
- D.
You have done well. You worked hard for it.
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- 5.
Your daughter has been caught cheating in a school test and you are informed. How will you handle this?
- A.
I will punish my daughter so that she does not copy in the future.
- B.
I will apologize to the teacher for my daughter’s behaviour.
- C.
I will teach her about behaviours that will cause trouble and teach skills that will show how to stay away from them.
- D.
I will not interfere as it is a problem between her school and her.
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- 6.
Your son tells you that his friend is a drug addict. You will
- A.
Tell your son that you do not care what his friend does for he will face the consequences of his actions.
- B.
Tell your son that you will buy him a BlackBerry if he stopped being friends with Ashok.
- C.
Tell your son that he needs to convince his friend to stop using drugs, failing which your son will inform his friend’s parents.
- D.
Warn your son strictly against being friends with Ashok.
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- 7.
I am doing everything for my child so that he takes care of me in my old age.
- A.
Even if I did everything for my child, he is anyway going to ignore me in my old age.
- B.
Let him lead his life, we will lead ours.
- C.
Why not! It’s his obligation.
- D.
Certainly not.
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- 8.
What do you think is the main objective of parenting? It is
- A.
To let your children be happy by allowing them to do whatever they want.
- B.
To make sure that children always obey your orders.
- C.
To provide children with just food, clothing and shelter.
- D.
To make sure that children are taught the life skills needed to be disciplined and are able to make their own choices.
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- 9.
You want your daughter to become a doctor while her Dad wants her to be a lawyer like him. But you are not sure what exactly your daughter wants. What will you do?
- A.
Let my daughter follow her own wishes without consulting us.
- B.
I alone will decide as I know what is best for her.
- C.
We will discuss with her and determine together based on her interests, skills and abilities.
- D.
I really don’t care what career she pursues later.
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- 10.
Your children are playing when suddenly the elder one hits the younger one. What will you do?
- A.
You will scold both of them and ask them to stop play for an hour.
- B.
You won’t interfere as children will always hit each other while playing.
- C.
You will ignore and pretend you didn’t watch the younger one being hit.
- D.
You will tell your older child it is not right to hit people, make him say sorry, and ask him not to resolve conflicts by force.
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- 11.
You go to a restaurant for lunch with your colleagues and at a nearby table, you see your daughter and a boy holding hands. You
- A.
Pretend you have not seen her and proceed to your table.
- B.
Go over to her table and drag her out.
- C.
Pretend you know the boy and greet the boy so that your colleagues do not misunderstand the situation.
- D.
Go over to their table, greet them and proceed to your table.
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- 12.
Your 17-year-old son returns home smelling of alcohol. You
- A.
Bring your husband to show how much he has taken after his uncle (Dad’s brother).
- B.
Bring him inside, take care of him and speak to him later.
- C.
Bring him inside and beat him black and blue and question why he is bringing disgrace to the family
- D.
Bring him inside and inform your husband that kids at this age need to experiment and that is exactly what he has done.
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- 13.
Your daughter lost a diamond ring that has been with the family for generations. Now, your mother-in-law wants to see the missing heirloom. What will you do?
- A.
You will say that you lost the ring to protect your daughter.
- B.
You will tell your mother-in-law that you slapped your daughter hard for losing the family heirloom.
- C.
You will tell her that your daughter lost the ring and is sorry for her carelessness.
- D.
You will say she never gave it to you in the first place to protect your daughter and yourself.
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- 14.
Your 16-year-old son has been invited by his friend for an overnight beach party. When your child asks for your permission, you
- A.
Tell him that you are the parent and you decide whether he should go or not.
- B.
Do not want to deal with it and say he should check with his Dad.
- C.
Ask your son to give you the contact number of Sunil’s parents so that you can discuss the logistics of the party and then give consent.
- D.
Buy him clothes so that he looks smart and handsome at the party.
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