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Whistle While They Work!
Parenting Quiz
from "Your Children Will Whistle While They Work!" by James Jones, Ph.D.
Introduction:
1. The most common questions asked by parents all over the country have to do with how parents can control their kids and get them to mind.
2. Which statement(s) is/are true?
A. Most parents have had parenting training of some kind such as a course offered in school or church or classes sponsored in the community.
B. It is enough to just love your kids… good parenting instinctively follows.
C. Most parents have had absolutely zero training and bring many false and dysfunctional concepts about parenting into their families.
D. Most parents parent emotionally and by the seat of their paints and not from a base of knowledge.
E. Most Moms and Dads come from very different families, with differing opinions on how to raise kids.
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3. People who love their children the most and try the hardest to be good parents often are the most vulnerable to becoming rescuing, controlling, and critical.
4. Generally, even the most sincere parents fail to find, study, and apply the scientific information now available on parenting.
5. Not misguided effort, enthusiasm, sincerity, or even the deepest parental love can make up for a lack of knowledge and application of correct parenting principles.
6. The more a parent understands and practices the correct principles of parenting the better chance a child will have of growing up with healthy self-esteem.
7. There are two opposing philosophies about the nature of man, what are they?
A. Man is always a victim of his environment and a social animal learning through trial and error what is and is not acceptable behavior.
B. Man is never a victim of his environment, but the master of his destiny, being subject to no one but himself for his moral decisions.
C. People cannot be trusted to do what is right so choices must be made for them that are for their own good and when necessary they must be forced to do what wiser individuals determine is best for them.
D. People, inherently are free and have the power to choose for themselves, therefore, we are justified in holding them responsible for the consequences of those choices.
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8. Of these philosophies which do we believe is the correct one?
A. Man is always a victim of his environment and a social animal learning through trial and error what is and is not acceptable behavior.
B. Man is never a victim of his environment, but the master of his destiny, being subject to no one but himself for his moral decisions.
C. Adults cannot be trusted to do what is right so choices must be made for them that are for their own good and when necessary they must be forced to do what wiser individuals determine is best for them.
D. People, inherently are free and have the power to choose for themselves, therefore, we are justified in holding them responsible for the consequences of those choices.
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