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Instructions: Take this quiz to determine your parent/s primary parenting style.
Please answer the following questions as related to your own upbringing by
choosing the answer closest to your experience. Encircle the letter of your choice.
1. You are under 5 years old and you steal a candy bar from the store. Your
parent(s)
A. Spank/yell/or punish you sternly. Make you apologize to the cashier and are
forbidden candy for a month.
B. Your parent pays for the candy saying kids! to the clerk and then gives you
the candy bar.
C. Your parent(s) explains how taking something that isnt yours makes the
other person and discusses ways to make amends without any shame.
2. When you wrote on the walls with pen/marker/poop, your parent(s) would
A. Spank, yell, or give me a stern time out as punishment
B. Roll their eyes at you and clean it up themselves
C. Gently describe what they see and what needs to be done (Looks like there
is marker on the wall let's get a towel to clean it up.") Then discusses
mutually agreeable ways to have fun writing/painting.
3. At dinner time you refuse to eat the meal prepared. Your parent(s)
A. You can't get up from the table until you've cleaned your plate.
B. You can have whatever you want and after some whining mom makes you a
different meal
C. Want you to listen to your body's cues and don't make you eat. You have
options for an array of healthy foods when you do feel hungry.
4. At a family function your parent(s)' expectation for behavior was...
A. Children should be seen and not heard. Speak when spoken too and keep
their manners at the table at all times
B. You do what you want running amok, flinging food, etc. Your parent(s) smile
and shrug.
C. You are allowed to follow your needs but are reminded to think of other's
needs to eat their meal, hear the conversation, etc.
5. As
A.
B.
C.

a child your parent(s) spanked you

As the primary form of discipline
Occasionally when your parent(s) reached their limit
Never. Hands are not for hitting.

6. As
A.
B.
C.

a child, you told your neighbor that shes ugly. Your parents would
Send him to his room
Laugh and tell your neighbor hes a rat bag
Explain to him that he really hurt her feelings

7. As
A.
B.
C.

a child when you misbehaved your parent(s)

Showed strong disapproval
Showed a resigned "kids will be kids" attitude
Showed a positive attitude that it was an opportunity to learn and grow
together as a family
Questions to ponder:
1. How would you assess the parenting style used by your parents? Is it effective or
not? Is it wrong or right? Why do you say so?
2. If we can go back in time and you can suggest to your parents; what parenting
style can you suggest? And what difference will it make in your own life?
3. According to psychologists, the type of parents we have will also be the type of
parents we will become. Agree or disagree? What do you think will be the kind
of parent you will become?
4. In case there is brokenness in family relationship, what steps have you done to
restore the relationship?
5. Write a draft of letter to your parents, pouring in all the things you would want to
say to them. The letter should be in a separate sheet of paper.
Questions to ponder:
1. How would you assess the parenting style used by your parents? Is it effective or
not? Is it wrong or right? Why do you say so?
2. If we can go back in time and you can suggest to your parents; what parenting
style can you suggest? And what difference will it make in your own life?
3. According to psychologists, the type of parents we have will also be the type of
parents we will become. Agree or disagree? What do you think will be the kind
of parent you will become?
4. In case there is brokenness in family relationship, what steps have you done to
restore the relationship?
5. Write a draft of letter to your parents, pouring in all the things you would want to
say to them. The letter should be in a separate sheet of paper.
Questions to ponder:
1. How would you assess the parenting style used by your parents? Is it effective or
not? Is it wrong or right? Why do you say so?
2. If we can go back in time and you can suggest to your parents; what parenting
style can you suggest? And what difference will it make in your own life?
3. According to psychologists, the type of parents we have will also be the type of
parents we will become. Agree or disagree? What do you think will be the kind
of parent you will become?
4. In case there is brokenness in family relationship, what steps have you done to
restore the relationship?
5. Write a draft of letter to your parents, pouring in all the things you would want to
say to them. The letter should be in a separate sheet of paper.
Questions to ponder:
1. How would you assess the parenting style used by your parents? Is it effective or
not? Is it wrong or right? Why do you say so?
2. If we can go back in time and you can suggest to your parents; what parenting
style can you suggest? And what difference will it make in your own life?

3. According to psychologists, the type of parents we have will also be the type of
parents we will become. Agree or disagree? What do you think will be the kind
of parent you will become?
4. In case there is brokenness in family relationship, what steps have you done to
restore the relationship?
5. Write a draft of letter to your parents, pouring in all the things you would want to
say to them. The letter should be in a separate sheet of paper.