Quiz: What Kind Of A Mum Are You?

Ever wonder what your parenting personality is? How other mums perceive and judge you? What is the parenting style that you are categorised under?….Helicopter? Tiger? Shampoo? Conditioner? Take this quiz to find out….

A) Are most offended on his behalf. Why would anyone bully such an angel? Bullying, after all, can permanently scar a child’s psyche. You go to school the very next day to take up the matter with the class teacher, school principal, Prime Minister and NASA

B)Console him. Tell him these things happen, even to adults, and though they are unfair, he needs to learn how to deal with every situation that life sends his way. Instruct him to fight or bully back. Enrol him in a self defence class.

C)Tell him to stop being such a wuss. Demand a DNA test! Your child should be the bully not the victim.

A) Takeher for all the practice sessions you can, but are anxious about how disappointed she will be if she doesn’t win. So you pray that she does and write in to school asking them not to encourage unhealthy competition among children and give each child a medal for participation.

B)Hire the best coach in the business. This is just the beginning. You’re going to make sure her potential goes to the next level. You modify her diet to optimise the results. Make a detailed chart of all the other contestants and their families’ medical history going back at least three generations so you know their weaknesses.

C)Great! You’re so happy for your child! But think it’s best that she go in for the tournament without any training. After all if she’s made it on her own this far, maybe she has a miraculous gift. She’ll win anyway.

A)Hug and congratulate him for trying his best. Ensure that he congratulates the winner. Take him out for ice cream and console him with a talk on life and it’s ups and downs, along with examples of people who failed first but went on to be successful. Convince him that a good sportsman will try his best again. But only if he wants to. No pressure!

B)Calmly hand him a bottle of water and then proceed to retrace every minute of the match and all that went wrong. Make mental notes to include new strategies with the coach on how your child’s game can be improved upon. Make a mental note to get a new coach. Include more sports drinks and nutrition bars.

C)Ummm, it was just a game! Not the end of the world. Get back to life a moment later with no mention of it, as though nothing happened.

A) Fly off the handle and yell your lungs out at first. How could she do this? After all the hard work you both put in!!!!! Blanking out is a sign of nervousness and weakness. What does she have to be nervous about?? Then immediately feel guilty when you realise she’s just a child. And then spend the rest of the day comforting, pampering and apologising to her.

B)You’re upset but accept the news with a calm maturity. Mentally calculate what your child needs to score in the other papers to maintain a decent average. Write a note to the teacher requesting for additional marks for neatness. You wonder how this is going to affect her chances of getting into Harvard. Decide to incorporate some fish oil and omega pills to boost memory.

C)These things happen. It’s no big deal. Better luck next time!

5) Your child has a bad cough and cold and has all the symptoms of a fever.

A) Have him sleep snuggled in with you in your bed until he recovers. Check his temperature several times through the night. Google home remedies and whip them up in your kitchen.

B)Call the doctor at the sign of the first sniffle and medicate immediately. Why wait for it to turn into something worse? Pump him with vitamin C.

C)Don’t really break a sweat. Children fall ill all the time. Two sips of brandy and he’ll be just fine.

Mostly A’s: As a mother, you’re all heart! Your emotions and instincts are the chief guiding force behind your parenting. You’re still in awe of the miracle of childbirth and your emotions are in sync with your child’s. You have taken it upon yourself to protect this life form from all harm. But since he is an extension of you, his being a well mannered, well brought up individual who will add value to this world is of utmost priority. Talks, anecdotes, stories with morals are your tool of discipline and punishment.

Mostly B’s: It’s very clear. Your job, as mother, is to nurture your child for success and a fulfilled life You approach every situation with a well researched plan of action. Childhood, after all, is a training period for the wonderful future ahead and that goal is achieved with military precision. Of course you insist on fun and games as part of your well-balanced, specially curated regime. So long as the nonproductive activities don’t exceed the twenty-seven minutes allotted to them in the day.

Ummm, you’re secretly not a mum at all! You’re a dad! Or someone with no children who is stuck in horrendous traffic and taking this quiz just to kill time!!!

Disclaimer: This quiz is a work of fiction. Resemblance to any person, place or thing is purely coincidental.

Truth is this quiz, like almost all others,is not based on any scientific facts or statistics but is just for laughs.

All parents are most likely to react to every situation in a combination of all of the above mentioned ways. At different times of the day, week and especially month, we yoyo from emotional and indulging to practical and proactive. And finally after all our emotions are spent, we go into a zen-like trance of “it’s not going to matter in five years, and therefore not important”.

And all of this wavering makes us perfectly NORMAL, (albeit irrational and scary to our children). But they’re going to love us anyway, even when we resemble raging lunatics or tyrant-like task masters, because they are smart enough to recognise our sincere and unadulterated love for them and know that we will always have their best interests at heart.