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What is your parenting style?

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A SelectSmart.com Parenting Selector by Mom & Pop, created August 2010.
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The first question is below.

1. Your role as parents is to:

Protect your kid and make their life happy as possible.

Give your child the life skills they need to be self-disciplined, responsible adults.

Show your child that life is difficult, it must be hard to get through it. Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" is your credo.

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2. Your personal activities include:

You have no personal activities, all your activities you do with your children.

There are things you do without your children

None of your activities involve your kids. They have their lives, you have yours.

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3. Do you trust people to monitor your child's education/activities?

Not much. You have to be there to protect them.

Mostly. you check in occasionally to see how things are going.

Totally. They are the experts.

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4. Your daughter and her best friend have a major blow-up at school. Your daughter comes home crying. What do you do?

Call this "best friend" and her parents and demand an apology.

Discuss the fight with your daughter, get the facts. Suggest some ways she might handle that issue and subsequent issues..

Let the kids work out their issues on their own. That's how they learn.

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5. Your child gets a lousy grade on a test.

Call the teacher and get an appointment with them as soon as possible.

Go over the test with your child. See where they made mistakes. Check to see if any answers were actually correct.

Ignore it. A bad grade on a test is no big deal.

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6. Your young child plays on a YMCA soccer team.

You are always the coach.

You are there at every practice and every game with snacks.

You and/or spouse show support by being there for all or nearly all their games.

You show up occasionally for your kid's games.

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7. How many times have you volunteered in your child's classroom?

At least 3-4 days a week.

You help out occasionally, especially when the teacher specifically requests your help.

You never volunteer.

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8. How involved are you with your child's homework?

You sit down with them nightly and help them with their homework.

You check that your child has completed their homework. You am ready to help if their are problems they can't solve or questions they don't understand.

You expect that they work alone, as it is their homework and not yours.

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9. Why do you volunteer at your child's school?

To ensure your child's well-being.

To help our often overworked teachers..

As you said, you never volunteer.

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10. How many field trips your child's class have you attended?

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11. In your home, who decides how children behave, which interests they pursue and goals they set?

Children should be allowed to do whatever interests/goals they want so they'll be happy.

Parents can teach children positive behavior skills so children can set and reach healthy goals.

Children can figure out how to behave and what interests/goals to pursue through trial and error.

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