1. I am often focused on my own needs.







2. My teen is confident and independent.







3. I provide for my teen’s basic needs.







4. I am aware of my teen’s emotional and social needs.







5. I can be impulsive in my decision making.







6. My teen is defiant.







7. I am consistent with parenting.







8. My teen has had problems in truancy and delinquency.







9. I am very involved, but I don’t try to control my teen.







10. My teen has been described as mature beyond their years.







11. I am very protective of my teen.







12. My teen is often bratty.







13. Rules are self-explanatory.







14. I don’t control my teen.







15. I trust that my teen can make good choices.







16. My teen does not have any restraints on him/her.







17. I set limits on my teen’s behavior.







18. I am a very understanding parent.







19. I let my teen choose what he wants to do.







20. I believe that most teens should be spanked.







21. I have to tell my teen what to do all the time.







22. People describe me as a strict parent.







23. I would describe myself as somewhat uninvolved.







24. People describe me as being lenient.







25. People are always picking on my teen.







26. Rules are made by parents without discussion.







27. I don’t trust the decisions my teen makes.







28. My teenager has run away.







29. I am very involved with my teen.







30. I have clear standards for behavior.







31. I am honest with my teen.







32. I attempt to understand my teen’s feelings.







33. My teen’s emotions aren’t very important.







34. My teen doesn’t have any friends.







35. I take care of my own social and emotional needs.







36. My teen often provides for himself/herself.







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Parents Train Up | How to Use this Assessment

The goal of this parenting assessment is to determine your parenting style. With this assessment, you will learn which parenting tasks are more dominant and may need to be decreased and which tasks are weaker and may need to increase. Additionally, you will receive useful parenting strategies that will help you to become a more balanced parent. If you have more than one teen, you likely raise each one differently. Feel free to take the assessment multiple times, as you consider each teen.

pick one of your teens if you have more than one. Take the test again for the other teen(s)