As part of a seminar I recently attended on stress in the
workplace, I was given a packet which included a family
stress test. Our family found that all of the questions fell
into what we considered the "wuss" category, and generated
our own family stress test:
Score 0 if the statement is never true, 1 if it is rarely
true, 2 if it is sometimes true, and 3 if it is always true.
1.____ Conversations often begin with "Put the gun down, and
then we can talk".
2.____ The school principal has your number on speed-dial.
3.____ The cat is on Valium.
4.____ People have trouble understanding your kids, because
they learned to speak through clenched teeth.
5.____ You are trying to get your four-year-old to switch to
decaf.
6.____ The number of jobs held down by family members
exceeds the number of people in the family.
7.____ No one has _time_ to wait for microwave TV dinners.
8.____ "Family meetings" are often mediated by law
enforcement officials.
9.____ You have to check your kid's day-timer to see if he
can take out the trash.
10.____ Maxwell House gives you industrial rates.
Scoring:
30 - a perfect score. Welcome to the neighborhood!
20-29 - You are doing reasonably well, but still have too
little going on in your life. Crank it up.
10-19 - You have mastered some of the aspects of the
stress-filled life, but still have a long way to go. Have
you considered a parallel career path?
0-9 - Enjoying all that extra time? What do you _do_ anyway?
