THE QUIZ ON BEING A PARENT

The following quiz on being a parent will cover critical
areas of parenting. Critical means here that parental
knowledge of a specific issue, pertinent to the question,
might prevent injury or damage to the child through
parental protective action.

Due to the many factors involved in parenting children
combined with the complexities and problems of modern
civilization, parenting children today is probably more
challenging than at any other time in human history. The
ensuing quizes will, hopefully, bring to our awareness some
of these challenges since awareness and knowledge are
needed before we can act to remedy a problem.

This quiz on being a parent will assume that parenting
begins at about the time of conception. Multiple choice and
true-false questions will be included in this quiz.

All information, pertaining to this quiz on being a parent,
can be found at http://www.parenting-healthy-children.com


QUIZ ON BEING A PARENT


  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


This ends the sections on the quiz on being a parent
covering parenting and nutrition.


Answers to the Quiz on Being a Parent


  1. e) See unconditional love really means unconditional.

  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 quiz on being a parent question, link here.
  7. d) Link to the importance of vitamins towards health.

  8. d) Link to does bioidentical oral progesterone work
    for the answer to this quiz on being a parent question.

  9. T Link to the importance of vitamins on health.

  10. a) Link to the importance of vitamins towards health.


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