Add up your score to find out which parenting style you tend toward the most. As you learn and grow with your child, come back and take the quiz again to see how your views change with your experience.
Are you a Conscious, Permissive, Disapproving or Dismissing Parent?
Interpret Your Score
1. Give yourself one point for every "true" answer for following items: 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 28, 33, 43, 62, 66, 67, 68, 76, 77, 78 and 80.Divide your total by 25. This is your Dismissing Score.
2. Give yourself one point for every "true" answer for following items: 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 20, 21, 22, 41, 42, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 69 and 70.
Divide your total by 23. This is your Disapproving Score.
3. Give yourself one point for every "true" answer for following items: 26, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52 and 53
Divide your total by 10. This is your Permissive Score.
4. Give yourself one point for every "true" answer for following items: 16, 23, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 51, 64, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 79 and 81
Divide your total by 23. This is your Conscious Score.
The higher your scored in any one area, the more you tend toward that style of parenting. Click on the links to read more about the descriptions of each style.
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