What is your parenting style?

What is your parenting style?

Our parenting style widely determines the way we interact with our children and family and how we perceive our parental role. Therefore, it can impact the way we deal with different situations. If you are curious to find yours, answer this questionnaire!

 

The questionnaire is divided in 2 parts:
Part 1: Is designed to help you identify your beliefs about being a parent
Part 2: Focuses on your current home situation

As you read each statement, decide how much you agree with it:
1= Strongly disagree
2= Disagree
3= Neutral
4= Agree
5= Strongly agree

The higher your combined score is, the more you tend towards that style of parenting, suggesting that it is the parenting style you are currently using.
If 2 combined scores are within 15 points of each other or less, it suggests that your are using the 2 styles equally.
If you have a difference of more than 15 points between Belief and Action scores in any category, it means that you tend to believe one thing but do another.

If you’re like most people, you’ll find yourself more authoritarian than you thought you were. But after all, this was the predominant style parents used when you were growing up. You probably find yourself in frequent battles with your child. Anger and frustration probably characterize the power struggles that you and your child experience. You are probably completing this questionnaire to find some relief as well as a more successful approach.

In an attempt to avoid being authoritarian, you may have overcompensated and developed a permissive style. Your relation with your child may be pretty good as long as you do what your child wants. But you probably find that your child gets very hostile and perhaps even throw tantrums, when you say NO or make a demand on him/her. Your relationship is characterized by service and pleasing, but only in one direction. You may have already begun to resent this unfairness. If so, you probably scored higher on the Authoritarian scale than you expected. It is easy to get fed up with a Permissive approach and flip back to an authoritarian one

Your relationship with your child is already positive. Though problems certainly occur, an atmosphere of mutual respect, trust and teamwork enables you to handle them without hurt or resentment