The Ultimate Parenting Quiz

“Positive parenting” is all about empowering children and raising them to become happy, fulfilled, independent, conscious and capable adults. This type of parenting supports children via guiding, mapping out and brainstorming which helps them acquire skills of choice making, mentally juggling and considering possibilities and being aware that actions do have consequences. This label includes: Attachment Parenting, Conscious Parenting, Spiritual Parenting and Slow Parenting.

“Toxic Parenting” (or “Poor Parenting”) is a term for several types of parenting methods with damaging effects on children that include Tiger Parenting, Helicopter Parenting, Indulgent Parenting, Narcissistic Parenting and Neglectful Parenting. These parenting styles are labeled “toxic” because the parent’s needs come before the child’s and end up “poisoning” the little ones. Toxic parenting range from neglecting children’s needs to direct abuse (emotional, physical, sexual).

Created by: Emily

Choose a quote that describes your Parenting Style:
- Mom knows best
- Freedom and responsibility walk side by side
- I’ll always love my children no matter what
- No one compares to my sweet darling boy/girl
- Excellency is not demanded, it’s expected
- Children learn from example
- Whenever my children need me, I’ll always be there for them
- "Go ask your father/mother"
Do you enjoy being a parent?
- I’ll enjoy it when my children get a good job and financial stability
- Not really: I regret having kids
- Yes: It’s a fun and complex process of learning and self-discovering
- I consider myself more of a friend than a parent
- I enjoy having people doing stuff for me overall
- Yes: I enjoy having fun and thoughtful conversations with my children
- Yes: I enjoy protecting my children and keeping them safe
- Yes: I enjoy giving them everything I never had
Do you believe your relationship with your partner is relevant for parenting?
- Yes: happy parents = happy kids
- No: my children are my top priority!
- No: the children are the only reason why my partner and I remain together
- No: I hate my partner and we fight all the time
- No: as long as the child is loved, has emotional support and the parents keep their disagreements private, it doesn’t matter
Children learn navigating through life:
- By their parents example
- Children don’t need social skills, they need excellent grades!
- By their parents protecting them from the ugliness of the world
- From their own experience
- I don’t know.
- By doing exactly what their parents want them to do
- From their own experience and with their parents’ love and support
What values do you want to foster in your children?
- Obedience, excellence and respect for authority
- Independence, responsibility and resourcefulness
- Safety, protection and loyalty
- Creativity, empathy and curiosity
- I just want them to make mommy/daddy proud!
- Consciousness, individuality and fulfillment
- Empathy, accountability and autonomy
- As long as they don’t bother me, I’m fine
What makes a “bad parent”?
- Parents who keep tabs on their children all the time
- Parents who don’t respect their children and their individuality
- Parents who allow their children to run the house and always have their way
- Parents who neglect their children emotional needs
- Parents who spoiled their children to the point they become arrogant
- Parents who expose their children to danger and allow them to take risks
- Parents who don’t give their children what they want
- Parents who don’t worry about their children's futures and academic success
Does your child help with the housework?
- Yes, I’ve always assigned him/her age appropriate chores
- Absolutely not! Knifes and cleaning fluids are dangerous and I don’t want my child to get hurt
- My child has to study, not clean the house!
- My child is the one who cleans the house
- I’ve used to ask for his/her help but my sweetie always talked back to me so I’ve given up
- I don't know
How do you discipline your children?
- Through insults, spanking and grounding
- I never discipline my children
- Depends on the gravity of the situation: if it’s serious, I’ll give them a low and appropriate punishment (not watching TV for a week, for instance)
- I praise their good actions and ignore their bad ones
- Through truthful conversations: I explain to my children why what they did was wrong but I don’t ground them
- My partner/parents discipline my children
Hitting your children: yes or no?
- Yes: children need discipline. Besides is there any other way of making them behave properly?
- No: it’s abusive and damages the child
- No: I would never hit my precious child
- Maybe?
- Yes: children must learn I’m the boss around here and do exactly what I tell them to do
- No: abuse and violence is always wrong
Choose the “perfect weekend” with your children:
- Camping: emotional bonding and nature exploring
- Cultural: museums, art galleries and other sites of culture significance to foster their creativity and curiosity
- Any weekend is perfect as long as I can drop my children at my parents/in laws house and go travel with my partner/by myself
- Beach: relaxing, having fun and playing in the sand or the sea
- A weekend where my children can pamper me
- Zoo or Aquarium: age appropriate and promotes educational conservations with the children
- Disneyland: my children will be happy and receive lots of gifts
- Watching animation movies at home: where they are safe and secure
What are your children’s eating habits?
- My children follow a strict diet of my choosing: vegan, no sugars, no processed foods, no dairy, etc.
- My children eat whatever they like whenever they like: pizza, ice cream, hamburgers, etc.
- Age appropriate healthy and nutritious food but I allow a little sweet on occasion
- My children eat whatever we eat
- Healthy, organic and wholesome foods. I also explain why too much sugar is damaging for their health
Why do you enjoy spending time with your children?
- I always have fun with them and I love my children’s personalities
- I like how they do things for me all the time
- I don’t. They constantly annoy me. I always ask relatives to take care of them for me.
- Because it’s my job to protect them
- Because they are my children and I’ll always love them
- To make sure they repay what they owe me: good grades
- I just love the happy look on their faces when I buy them presents
What’s your children interaction with technologies?
- They are forbidden unless it’s the computer and for studying. TV and Video games are damaging for the brain
- My children have access to whatever they want for as long as they like
- I allow my children to watch TV or play video games for 1 hour or 2 after they finished their homework
- I don’t allow my children to watch TV, play video games or navigate the Web without me in the room. Their computers and cellphones have filters and all content is approved by me
- I let my children decide if they want to engage with technologies or not. But I warn them about the dangerous of the Web, nonetheless
- It’s the best way to keep them quiet, so they can do whatever they want.
- There is only one TV at the house and it’s mine. If they want to watch TV, they need to buy one for themselves and with their own money
Your child is throwing a tantrum. What do you do?
- I teach him/her there are healthier ways to express his/her emotions
- I allow her/him to throw tantrums and then talk about it
- I insult or/and spank him/her until he/she stops doing it
- I buy him/her presents or fast food (whatever she/he prefers) for her/him to stop
- I just give her/him a cellphone or an i-Pad or something for her/him to shut up
- I hug her/him until she/he stops
- Both my partner and I remain calm for her/him follow our example
What kind of photos of your children do you post on social media?
- Appropriate and happy family pictures
- None: I’m against it because it’s dangerous due to pedophiles and kidnappers
- I enjoy showing off my children on social media for self-promotion reasons: exhibit my lifestyle, my great sense of fashion, etc.
- I only post appropriate photos of my children on social media and if they consent
- Artsy yet appropriate photos where my child is not recognizable
- I share humorous and embarrassing videos and photos of my children for laughs
- I rather post photos of myself
- I share photos of my children all the time and don’t think whenever they appropriate or not
Your children are fighting. How do you handle the situation?
- I break the fight, slap them both and send them to their rooms
- I promise to buy them gifts if they stop fighting
- They are grounded until they learn how to behave properly
- I let the children handle the situation by themselves and only interfere if needed be
- I ask them to calm down and urge them to sit down and solve their conflict through a truthful and honest conversation
- My children don’t fight
- I’m too busy so it’s probably my partner who breaks off the fight
Your child trips and falls, resulting in a minor cut in his/her knee. What’s your reaction?
- You get into panic mode and immediately pick her/him up: “My darling boy/girl! Oh, no, you hurt your knee! Are you alright? I’ll take you to the hospital!”
- You allow the child to get up and watch his/her reaction. You only intervene if the child asks for your help.
- You scold the child for being “clumsy”
- You ask the child if he/she needs your help and act accordingly to his/her needs.
- You only notice your child fell after he/she started crying because you were too busy checking on your phone
- You almost start crying while picking her/him up into your arms. Then promise you’ll buy him/her a present because of what happened.
- You look around, laugh and say “kids have butter feet!” and then proceed to violently pick him/her up the floor and give him/her a deadly look for embarrassing you on public
Your child says something rude to you. What’s your reaction?
- Slap him/her for being disrespectful.
- You ignore his/her rudeness.
- You ask the child why she/he is being bad-mannered and proceed to explain why impoliteness and disrespect is wrong and should be avoid
- “Do you want mommy/daddy to buy you a present, my sweet?”
- “How dare you talk to me in that way, you stupid and ungrateful b*stard?” and then spank the child.
- You ask the child to reflect upon his/her words and deliberate if they are a suitable way to talk to others
- You ask the child who taught him/her such words. Then, you go have a serious talk with the responsible (or his/her parents).
- You remind the child you and your partner/husband/spouse don’t talk to each other in such a way
Your child gets a bad grade. What’s your reaction?
- You have a talk with his/her teacher and beg/pay for better grades
- I encourage him/her to find out what went wrong so he/she can do better next time. If he/she needs my help or a tutor, I’ll provide it
- I hire a tutor to help him/her
- You spank him and ground him/her until he/she provides you with better grades
- You give him/her counsel and encourage him/her to improve. But it’s up to him/her to get better grades.
- You spank the child and ask: “Why are you doing this to me? After all the sacrifices I’ve made for you!”
- You encourage him/her and say you believe that he/she will do better next time
- You don’t care
Your child is having trouble with bullies at school. What do you do?
- I give him/her my support and advice on how to deal with it, but eventually it’s up to him/her to solve it
- I scold the child as “weak” for not standing up for himself
- I ask my child who the bullies are and go have a talk to their parents about it so they stop terrorize my son/daughter
- I consol my child and ask him/her if he/she needs me to help finding a solution. I’ll act according to my child’s needs
- I tell him/her to stand up to the bullies and be done with it
- My son/daughter is the bully
You were called to the principal's office because your child did something bad at school:
- You refuse to believe it and blame it on the school/friends/etc.
- You listen to both sides to understand what truly happened. If your child is to blame, you make assure he/she is held accountable for his/her mistake with a suitable low punishment
- You sit down with the child and allow her/him to explain and think about his/her actions.
- You double your spy network at school and scold the teachers for not keeping an eye on your child
- You spank your child and forbid him/her from leaving the house until he/she goes to college
- You don’t have time to go to the principal’s office
- You slap the child and ask “Why are you doing this to me?”
- My child would never be called to the principal’s office because he doesn’t have bad behavior models at home.
Besides school, do you encourage your children in pursuing any extra activities?
- No, I prefer for my children to stay at home where is safe and secure.
- I encourage my children to pursue whatever makes them happy
- I made my children take ballet lessons/join the football team/etc. because that’s what I always wanted when I was a child but my parents didn’t let me
- As long as it is age appropriate, I allow my children to explore whatever activities they like
- My partner/parents decide those sort of things
- My children do whatever they want and I always make sure they are the best
- My children have to excel at everything: besides school, they have piano lessons, French lessons, art lessons, theater lessons…
A family member has passed away. How do you tell your children?
- I’ll act accordingly to the child’s age and maturity. If he/she is ready to comprehend the meaning of death, I’ll be honest with him/her
- I straightforward tell him/her: that’s the way life is and they must suck it up
- I hide the truth to protect my child: say the relative moved to another country, etc.
- I’ll be honest with my child and explain the meaning of death
Your teenager child wants to go out (date, party, etc.). What’s your reaction?
- They never ask for my permission, they just go
- You forbid her/him to go to and get jealous of people inviting her/him while you have to stay at home
- You allow him/her to go but urge him/her to be responsible and careful, otherwise he/she won’t be going out next time
- You ask with whom and the address of where she/he is going. You allow him/her to go but follow him/her and spent the night spying on them. If you see something that displeases you, you take him/her home immediately
- You trust your child to be responsible, so you allow him/her to go
- Great! I finally have some time away from him/her!
- Going out is off limits! He/she has to be home studying.
- You allow him/her to go but stay up waiting for her/him to have a chat about how it went afterwards.
Do you go through your teenager’s room and search his/her things?
- All the time. I want to make sure I know everything about his/her life
- My child keeps his room door locked
- No
- I force my child to always show me everything
- No. If I sense something’s wrong I’ll have an honest conversation with him/her
- I don’t need to, I completely trust my children
It’s time for your child to go to college:
- My child will go to a top college select by me years ago
- I’ll choose the college according to how close home it is. Also, my daughter/son has to keep me updated of her/his every move
- My son/daughter doesn’t know if he/she wants to go to college
- If my child wants to leave me and go to college he/she has to pay for it with her/his own money
- We’ll see options together and discuss about it. But ultimately it’s her/his choice.
- We’ll decide together what the best option is
- I’ll support his/her choice no matter what: whenever is going to college or not
- It’s his/her life, not mine

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