Parenting Survey
Non-parents are also more than welcome to take part!
As always with survey posts, please do share widely.
Parenting! We worry if we’re doing it right, we judge others for doing it wrong - and we know that, no matter what we do, many of the outcomes are out of our hands.
So what do people really think about parenting? This short survey - all multiple choice questions - asks people their views on various aspects, from smacking to mobile phones. Both parents and non-parents are very welcome to answer.
There are four sections:
A: Hopes and fears: what do people want for their children - and what do they worry about?
B: Judgy, judgy: are other parents getting it right on discipline, protectiveness or independence?
C: Minimum age: what age should children be allowed to do or have things?
D: Helpful or harmful: are certain parenting techniques good or bad?
No right or wrong answers, just your views - it should take no more than a few minutes to complete and you may skip any question if you're not sure or if you are not comfortable answering.
The survey will close on Sunday 29 June, with results to follow shortly afterwards.
As always with survey posts, please do share widely - the more people who take it, the better!
Few tricky questions in there! Felt like there wasn't much of an option to say that my main hope is that he ends up largely happy, and my main concern is that he ends up largely miserable.
On the wider parenting questions, I think the biggest issue is parents having a fair idea of the standards they want to set but then not being able to make that happen. Even with a teaching background, I know there are some things I intended but didn't manage.
I was surprised in question 4 about fears that there wasn't an option relating to health.
One of my sons is allergic to eggs and peanuts and overwhelmingly my biggest fear for him is anaphylaxis