- Your
child turns up with friends after school. Do you:
Allow and hour's play, then ask them to go - it's homework time.
Tell the friends to go home - your child has homework to do.
You let them get on with it.
- Your
child insists on a dog's name for the new baby what happens?
The baby's second name is Tommy.
You gently change the child's mind.
Ask
him to pick a more suitable name.
- Your
daughter brings home a first boyfriend. Do you: beat rate in per minute?
Welcome him, but make sure you are around.
Leave them alone.
Supervise.
-
Your
kids are keens to holiday in some difficult place. Are they:
Asked to put their choice into the hat like everone else: and you will go
if it gets picked out.
Ignored completely.
Heard sympathetically.
- Your
children ask if they can throw a huge party. Do you:
Refuse.
Agree - it will be a laugh.
Agree to a party, but you will be in the kitchen to prevent trouble.
- Your
child in passionate about a current issue. Do you:
Agree wholeheartedly.
Laugh scornfully.
Listen sympathetically.
- Your
daughter wants new clothes. Do you:
Give her money to buy new clothes.
Go with her to the shop and let her spend an agreed amount.
Get some patterns and make some for her.
-
Your 11-year-old child is desperate for a pair of heels. Do you:
Refuse point-blank.
Expalin that high heels are very harmful, but she may have one pair for very
special parties.
Buy her several pairs.
- Your
son begs for a new football kit, but he has not outgrown the old one yet.
Do you:
Agree, but only if he helps around the house.
Flatly refuse to buy it.
Buy it
for him.
- Your
child becomes a vegetarian. Do you:
Switch to a veg diet.
Insist they eat meat.
Provide
a balanced vegetarian diet.