Strict Authoritarian Parents In Schools

For an adolescent, it is very important to have a strong support system when it comes to their education. A strong support system would consist of a parent or adult figure that would guide the adolescent through their academic journey in a way that is positive and encouraging. Unfortunately, some adolescents have a much harder time getting through school due to their overbearing and strict authoritarian parents. These authoritarian parents typically stress the importance of education and hard work, but they do so in a very harsh and formal way. An adolescent who is the child of an authoritarian parent may recognize that they need to do well in school, but the immense amount of pressure that they receive from their parents may be hindering their potential to do well. Authoritarian parenting can inflict a good amount damage on an adolescent’s development. This is

When the authoritarian parent employs an authoritarian style of classroom management at home, their child can “tend to be passive learners, fail to initiate activities, express anxiety about social comparison, and have poor communication skills” (From the book). All of these negative mental health effects derive from the strict punishments that the authoritarian threatens their child with. They may threaten the child with a ridiculously long grounding, they may throw some of their cherished possessions away, or they could even go as far as to physically abuse the child. They reduce their child’s amount of self esteem by comparing them to the rest of society, or even their family members. This leaves the child feeling unworthy and leads them to believe that they cannot do well in school. All of their feelings can ultimately lead to a strong feeling of indifference towards their studies, or even worse, they could feel the need to drop out and give