Child Rearing Style Analysis
As a child, I always used to wonder why can't my parents be friendly with me? Why can't they try to see where I'm coming from? All I wanted was them to spend some time together as a family and not having felt as I was in school 24x7. Was it because they were under the cultural influence which was directing them to maintain parental gap? The answer is yes; they were just practicing their cultural norms. As being originated from Indian family, my parents always maintained that boundary line which never let me cross my thoughts across to them. As a result, I kept all my thoughts, my views and peer problems to myself. From being a brilliant kid, I became a person with passive personality: always scared, nervous and feared socializing because I
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At this point, my parents with their individual viewpoint started to have variance on me adapting to the new environment. Having different perspective towards society's operation caused tension within our family. Now the question arises," Don't parents realize that too much parental control halts child's personal growth?" Such type of parenting style is referred to as authoritarian. "Authoritarian parents utilize strict and harsh child rearing techniques with an absolute set of standards to which children must conform while permissive parents provide too few rules, boundaries, or restrictions for their children" (Chong, et al 1). Parents must not adopt authoritarian parenting style as it contributes to such behavior which is never welcomed by them when presented and further leads to tension within the family. This parenting style develops such consequences which leave kids down with psychological and personality disorders, consisting problems like fear of failing at each step of life, withdrawing oneself from socializing and turning out to be authoritarian towards parents as an …show more content…
In addition, they tend to lack spontaneity and be overly dependent on others for directions and decision making. Finally, these children are more likely to be rejected by their peers and suffer from low self-esteem" (Stein, et al. 1) . Emanation from that, kids develop a self-concept based on their interpretation of parents reaction and complaints about them, and this adds to more mental stress than they already have from school. Parallel to this, they also build a misconception about themselves that they should avoid talking to people as they view themselves less than others, and this behavior gets termed as 'personality disorder.' But in actual lot of issues tangle with their growth. They often lost themselves in between the context of who they are and who they have to
At this point, my parents with their individual viewpoint started to have variance on me adapting to the new environment. Having different perspective towards society's operation caused tension within our family. Now the question arises," Don't parents realize that too much parental control halts child's personal growth?" Such type of parenting style is referred to as authoritarian. "Authoritarian parents utilize strict and harsh child rearing techniques with an absolute set of standards to which children must conform while permissive parents provide too few rules, boundaries, or restrictions for their children" (Chong, et al 1). Parents must not adopt authoritarian parenting style as it contributes to such behavior which is never welcomed by them when presented and further leads to tension within the family. This parenting style develops such consequences which leave kids down with psychological and personality disorders, consisting problems like fear of failing at each step of life, withdrawing oneself from socializing and turning out to be authoritarian towards parents as an …show more content…
In addition, they tend to lack spontaneity and be overly dependent on others for directions and decision making. Finally, these children are more likely to be rejected by their peers and suffer from low self-esteem" (Stein, et al. 1) . Emanation from that, kids develop a self-concept based on their interpretation of parents reaction and complaints about them, and this adds to more mental stress than they already have from school. Parallel to this, they also build a misconception about themselves that they should avoid talking to people as they view themselves less than others, and this behavior gets termed as 'personality disorder.' But in actual lot of issues tangle with their growth. They often lost themselves in between the context of who they are and who they have to