The purpose of this assessment is to establish a baseline - of your child's behaviors, as well as how you relate to them, and feel about yourself, during this challenging journey.
Some of these may be tough to respond to - as your experience is so complex, and unique, and the questions are subjective...but just hold it lightly.
You just want to get a read on how you're relating to your parenting experience right now - and that will give you something to compare it to, after you finish the course and complete the post-assessment. This will help us identify more concrete ways that we have "moved the needle" in a positive direction. Those incremental steps in a better direction are easy to miss when life is tough!
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Question 1 of 10
Overall, what percentage of time during an average week, that you are with your child, do you feel includes negative interactions, such as push back, resistance, meltdowns, tantrums, irritability, anger, aggression, anxiety etc?
5% - 10% very rarely
20% - 30% sometimes
40% - 50% about half the time
60% - 70% most of the time
80% - 90% feels like nearly all the time
Question 2 of 10
Please share some more detail about what a typical week looks like, in your child's challenging behaviors. (NOTE: This is optional, however, you will need to put any character in the text box, in order to move on to the next question. )
Question 3 of 10
Overall, what percentage of time during the week that you are with your child, are you and your child laughing together, connecting, having fun, spending pleasant time together?
40% -50 % about half the time
80 % - 90% nearly all the time, or the majority of the time
Question 4 of 10
Please feel free to add in any additional information to clarify your response above and share a more detailed picture of what you're experiencing regularly that feels like positive interactions. (NOTE: This is optional, however, you will need to put any character in the text box, in order to move on to the next question. )
Question 5 of 10
Overall, as you consider your experience as a parent, how stressed (frustrated, exhausted, depleted etc) are you?
1 - not stressed
2 - rarely stressed
3 - occasionally stressed
4 - more often than not stressed
5 - very stressed!
Question 6 of 10
Please feel free to share more in response to the answer above, to share how you are experiencing your parenting journey. For example, how do you know you are stressed, how does it show up, how would you know you are less stressed, what does it feel like most days, etc. (NOTE: This is optional, however, you will need to put any character in the text box, in order to move on to the next question. )
Question 7 of 10
Name 2 - 3 of the most challenging, frustrating, specific behaviors your child exhibits regularly. And for each behavior, please add, how frequently in a week you see these behaviors, a subjective scale of 1 - 10 on how intense these behaviors seem, and how long these behaviors last (if applicable).
Question 8 of 10
How hard on yourself are you, as a parent? In other words, how much self-judgment do you feel overall, in how you are parenting this child with who is exhibiting challenging behaviors?
1 - I feel like I'm failing, in general, most days
2 - when it gets really hard, I get very frustrated with myself and feel like I'm failing and not doing a good enough job
3 - I sometimes get really down on myself, and feel like I have failed as a parent, and other times, I know that I'm showing up, loving this child, doing the best I can.
4 - I feel that I'm usually doing the very best I can for this child, and sometimes, there are bumps and it is hard.
5 - I'm killin' and nailin' it, most of the time and know that I'm showing up in the best way I can.
Question 9 of 10
Please share the common thoughts you might have, about yourself as a parent, when things get really hard. (optional)
Question 10 of 10
Describe your vision as a parent that you hold, for when things are better and/or easier: