Once you have put in your ratings, add them up and put in your total score:
_____ Total Score
Interpretation of scores on Pathfinders Parenting Principles Inventory
Add up all of the ratings you have given the 50 parenting principles for your total score. The following is the interpretation of the scores.
Score Rating Interpretation
50-75 Very Poor You have a long ways to go to find the road to becoming a pathfinder with your children.
76-125 Poor You are getting close to the road to begin your journey to becoming a pathfinder.
126-175 Fair You have entered the road and begun to make progress in becoming a pathfinder.
176-225 Good You have come quite a distance on the road to becoming a pathfinder.
226-250 Excellent You are almost at the completion of the journey to becoming a pathfinder for your children.
Journal Exercise
Directions: In your personal journal respond to the following questions:
1. Which of these principles are you currently following in your parenting with your children? How hard a time do you have abiding by these principles? What do you need in your life in order to assist you to keep these principles actively working for you?
2. Which of these principles do you not currently follow? Which of these principles would you like to implement in your life? What is currently keeping you from implementing them? Which of these principles do you not want to implement? Why is this? What makes these principles unacceptable to you?
3. Which of these principles currently challenge your beliefs about being a parent? What beliefs are being challenged? How rational are your beliefs which are being challenged by the Pathfinder's Parenting Principles?
4. What do you think your family would be like if you implemented all of the principles you can accept as valid in your life?
5. How would your personal functioning change if you implemented all the principles you want to put into place with your children?
6. What obstacles currently stand in your way to fully implementing the principles you like on this list?
7. What would be the reaction of your children to the implementing of the principles you want for your family?
8. How would your partner in raising your children respond to your implementing these principles?
9. What do you need to do for yourself in order to fully implement these principles?
10. What do you think could be the benefits for you in implementing these principles in your life?