Parenting Today

1. Unconditional love means:
   
   a) accepting the unique character of your child
   b) demonstrating interest in your child's life
   c) genuinely praising your child
   d) letting your child have her way
   e) all of the above except d
   
   
2. Tough love is often an excuse for which of the following:
   
   a) blaming the child & impulsively taking the easy way out
   b) failing to teach the child properly
   c) inability to give genuine praise
   d) taking one's frustrations out on the child
   e) all of the above
   
   
3. Real tough love means:
   
   a) teaching self-control by maintaining self-control
   b) emphasizing learning more than punitive punishment
   c) genuinely praising at every opportunity
   d) all of the above
   
   
4. Parenting with love and natural consequences leads to:
   
   a) more independent children
   b) more confident children
   c) both a & b
   d more dependent children
   
   
5. The single most important factor determining a child's
   success is:
   
   a) genes
   b) IQ
   c) parenting
   d) persistence
   e) nutrition
   f) a good education
   
   
6. Near starvation of the mother at conception has more of a
   negative effect on the child than near starvation at birth.
   
   T or F
   
   
7. In a 2004 study the approximate number of chemicals,
   toxic to the brain, found in unborn US babys' blood was:
   
   a) 20 b) 50 c) 75 d) 200
   
   
8. In 1966, British researcher, Dr. Katarina Dalton, found
   astounding increases in cognitive abilities of children who
   were given natural progesterone before the 16th month of
   pregnancy. This critical period has been called:
   
   a) abiogenesis b) Neuronal Development c) spontaneous generation
   d) imprinting
   
   
9. Vitamins can exert genetic effects through influencing
   the enzymes produced by genes.
   
   T or F
   
   
10. Environmental contaminants estrogenic affects have been
    blamed for rapidly declining male sperm counts, birth
    defects, as well as epidemic increases in child brain
    damage and cancer. Which of the following hormones most
    strongly opposes estrogen?
    
    a) progesterone b) testosterone c) DHEA d) thyroxin
    
    
    

1. e) See the definition of unconditional love.
   
   
2. e) Link to counseling techniques for children.
   
   
3. d) Same link as above
   
   
4. c) For the answer to this quiz on being a parent question,
   link to parenting with love and logical consequences.
   
   
5. c) See parenting healthy children. Educated parents are
   the single most important factor determining a child's
   success because they are at the center of the child's
   universe, where they can exert the most influence if they
   choose to do so.
   
   
6. T For the answer to this parenting today quiz question,
   link here.
   
   
7. d) Link to vitamins and genetic mutations.
   
   
8. d) Link to does bioidentical progesterone work for
   the answer to this parenting today quiz question.
   
   
9. T Link to vitamins and school performance.
   
   
10. a) Link to vitamins and genetic mutations.