TOP TEN WAYS TO TELL IF YOU NEED FAMILY COUNSELING As part of a seminar I recently attended on stress in the workplace,

TOP TEN WAYS TO TELL IF YOU NEED FAMILY COUNSELING

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, 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 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?