Parenting Quiz

Have you ever stopped to think and ask yourself what sort of parent you are or asked yourself more specifically, how you rate yourself as a parent?

Do you believe you are doing your best and have a natural talent or do you think the whole thing is a bit overwhelming at times and you just keep getting it wrong?

Whatever your answer, the way you view yourself as a parent has a very strong effect on the way you influence your family and your kids. If you're confident and energetic, your family picks up on your positivity. But if you're constantly unsure or ill at ease your family picks up on that too and relationships can get tense.

This quiz helps you look at what makes you tick and what influences you and pinpoints what style of parenting you are currently using. There are no right or wrong answers but you may discover things about yourself as a parent that you didn't realise and might like to change.

Parenting is all about learning, growing and fine tuning as it's a journey and an adventure. Bringing up kids is often challenging, frustrating and exhausting but it is also hugely rewarding. This quiz is designed to get you thinking and exploring what sort of parent you currently are and what sort of parent you want to be.

Q1: Parenting is all about

Setting strict rules for your children and getting them to obey them.

Teaching your kids why your rules are important and helping them learn to make good choices on their own.

Making sure everyone is happy and doing whatever they want in life.

Getting through it with the minimum of fuss and effort. It is just a stage of life to get through.

Q2: Your child is suffering from a lack of confidence at school and is refusing to go. Would you:

Tell them not to be so soft. Insist they must go, stating that if they are going to survive in the real world they need to get on and do things.

Tell them they have to go to school, however you are there to help them with any problems they have no matter how small.

Provide them with comfort and support. Letting them go back to school when they wish or alternatively arranging for them to move schools.

Ignore the problem as this is something all children go through. It will pass.

Q3: You feel its time your children started to pull their weight more at home and do some more of the household chores. Would you:

Insist your child helps with the chores or there will be consequences, shouting at them if they disagree or argue.

Explain to your child that you need some help with the jobs around the house and now they are growing up they are expected to help too. If they take on more responsibility with household chores they will be trusted with more responsibility for themselves.

Ask you child to help you but do the chores yourself if they fail to complete them.

Get a cleaner in to help as you are to busy to have a discussion with your children to sort out this issue.

Q4: If your kids get into trouble, would you:

Get angry and discipline them. Telling them they will be punished every time they misbehave.

Discipline them appropriately, setting boundaries as to what is and what is not acceptable. After you have given them time to think over what they have done, you explain to them why what they did was wrong and help them find better solutions to use in fut

Tell them not to do it again. They will learn what is right and wrong as they grow older so its best not to put them down too strongly.

Ignore the problem as it has little effect on your life.

Q5: You child has a bad nightmare and comes to find you late at night, would you:

Shout at your child for waking you up, telling them they must learn to grow up and send them back to bed.

Comfort your child asking them why they are upset, then once they are calm tell them its late and they need to go back to sleep. Explaining to them not to worry as you are only next door.

Comfort them and tell them its ok. Let them go back to sleep where and when they are ready to.

Ignore them, locking your room to make sure they dont bother you again that night.

Q6: Your child wants a new toy a friend of theirs has which is beyond your budget. Would you:

Tell them "no" and to be grateful for what theyve got.

Explain to them that you cant afford to buy it and therefore there is no use complaining but also explaining that you will consider buying them something within your budget soon.

Tell them you will save up and buy it for them so they dont get upset.

Wonder who this rich friend is as you have never met them.

Q7: You have had a stressful day at work and your child is behaving in a particularly annoying manner. Would you:

Snap and tell them to shut up and stop annoying you.

Tell your child you will listen to them for a short while, but explain you are tired and have had a bad day and require some peaceful time afterwards.

Suffer in silence as it is your role to be available all the time for your kids no matter how trivial the problem.

Send them to their room as children should be seen and not heard.

Q8: When discussing your children with friends, would you:

Focus on their bad behaviour and how they wont stick to your rules.

Be positive and open minded about the role they have in your life.

Tend to go on about how much you love them no matter what they do.

You never talk about them unless you have to.

PARENTING QUIZ

Q1: Parenting is all about

Q2: Your child is suffering from a lack of confidence at school and is refusing to go. Would you:

Q3: You feel its time your children started to pull their weight more at home and do some more of the household chores. Would you:

Q4: If your kids get into trouble, would you:

Q5: You child has a bad nightmare and comes to find you late at night, would you:

Q6: Your child wants a new toy a friend of theirs has which is beyond your budget. Would you:

Q7: You have had a stressful day at work and your child is behaving in a particularly annoying manner. Would you:

Q8: When discussing your children with friends, would you:

What our clients say:

PARENTING QUIZ

Q1: Parenting is all about

Q2: Your child is suffering from a lack of confidence at school and is refusing to go. Would you:

Q3: You feel its time your children started to pull their weight more at home and do some more of the household chores. Would you:

Q4: If your kids get into trouble, would you:

Q5: You child has a bad nightmare and comes to find you late at night, would you:

Q6: Your child wants a new toy a friend of theirs has which is beyond your budget. Would you:

Q7: You have had a stressful day at work and your child is behaving in a particularly annoying manner. Would you:

Q8: When discussing your children with friends, would you:

What our clients say:

Q3: You feel its time your children started to pull their weight more at home and do some more of the household chores. Would you: