Take this quick six-question quiz, then look at the results below. Have fun!
Grab a pencil and piece of paper and keep track of your responses.

A. Your child, who is a picky eater, has been invited to a sleepover this weekend. What do you do?
  1.     Call the host’s parents and ask about the menu. If it’s not to your kid’s liking, send her with her own food.
  2.     Swing by at dinnertime to “see how things are going” with a pizza in your car…just in case.
  3.     Keep her home to practice piano.
  4.     Send her, turn off your phone, and pick her up the next day.
  5.     Ask her what she’ll do if they serve food she doesn’t like.

B. Your son tells you he has a science project due next week, and science is his weakest subject. You…
  1.      Call the teacher and tell her your son shouldn’t have to do the assignment because it’s causing him too much stress. When that doesn’t work, you have a      meeting with the school principal. And, finally, you corner the school superintendent in the ladies’ room at a local restaurant.
  2.      You “help” your child with the project, staying up until 2 am, working on it as he gets his ten hours of sleep.
  3.      Expect an A+ on the project and to use that grade as a calling card when contacting NASA for your son in the future for a job interview.
  4.      Tell him, “It’s your assignment. Figure it out.”
  5.      Look up science project ideas on the internet, scan books with him and guide him to discover his project idea and how he’ll execute it.

C. In the other room your daughter and her best friend start to argue over the last slice of pizza. How do you respond?
  1.      You buy another pizza.
  2.      You come in and cut the last piece in half.
  3.      What friends? Get back to your homework!
  4.      You turn the TV louder to tune out the melee.
  5.      You don’t interfere, but listen to see how they deal with the problem.

D. Your child’s first choice of universities sends a letter that states they are considering her, but she must write a college entrance essay.
  1.      You never show her the letter from the university and look for a college with less strict guidelines.
  2.      You ask your daughter a few questions, then type up the essay yourself and send it from her email address.
  3.      After she finishes the essay, you have her rewrite it in four different languages.
  4.      I didn’t know she applied to college.
  5.      You have her write it up and show it to you for your feedback.

E. You come back home from dropping your son off at school and find that he’s left his homework on the kitchen table.
  1.      You rush the homework over to school.
  2.      You call the teacher and ask him not to mark your son down for an incomplete assignment.
  3.      This will be the one and only time he will make this mistake. You ask the teacher for a week’s worth of extra homework to teach your son a lesson.
  4.      You expect him to walk back home, pick it up and walk back to school.
  5.      You let him feel the consequences of his faux pas so he can learn from his mistake.

F. Which parent do you identify with most?      
  1.      Marlin, the dad from Finding Nemo (“I’ll make sure you won’t fail.”)
  2.      Mrs. Jumbo, Dumbo’s mother (“Stay with me. I’ll keep you safe.”)
  3.      Joseph Jackson, Michael Jackson’s father (“No friends, no sleepovers. Practice, practice, practice…No soup for you!”)
  4.      Gepetto, Pinocchio’s dad (“I love you, Pinocchio. Now, go out and do your thing.”)
  5.      Charles Ingalls, the father on Little House on the Prairie (“What did you learn from that, Laura?”)

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