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Pop Quiz: Do You Need a Vacation?

Posted by Jen Chaney

Wondering if you need to take a break from the stresses of parenting? Take this helpful quiz and find out.

Supposedly if you answer "often" to five or more of the questions, then you are in need of an immediate, rejuvenating vacation. But honestly, I would have answered often to some of these questions before I even had a kid.

"Are you careless about the appearance of your home?"

Uh, try every freaking day.

"Are you irritable and quick-tempered?"

Yes, jerky. What's it to you?

And then my favorite, which is question no. 9: "Do you have trouble concentrating?"

Really, shouldn't that be question 1 or 2? Because if I have trouble concentrating, I lost my focus well before I got to the ninth question.  

But then again I am irritable and quick-tempered. So take the quiz. Or don't. What-freaking-ever. 


Comments

 

anna said:

Nice idea, a vacation from parenting. As if! The closest I get is vacation WHILE parenting, which ain't no vacation at all. I thought I was the only one who dreaded the end of school until I read this hilariously caustic article from one very honest mom: www.burbia.com/.../1827

July 2, 2008 9:25 AM
 

Brett Singer said:

I don't need to take the quiz. I need a vacation.

July 3, 2008 10:34 AM

About Jen Chaney

Jen Chaney is the movies editor and a DVD columnist for washingtonpost.com. Her byline has appeared in The Washington Post, People magazine, USA Today and the Utne Reader as well as various other newspapers around the country. She is the mother of a one-year-old boy, who has not yet learned the word Xanadu. But he will. Trust us, he will.

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