How does parenting style affect adolescent academic performance? This is important to my life because at this point in time I have realized that a plethora of young girls in my life seem to be performing horribly, especially now that different families are experiencing tough times. Tough times can cause people to react differently to their circumstances, which can possible affect the way parents interact with their children and their styles of parenting. The course of this paper will examine if adolescents are truly affected by the actions of their parents or if their total performance falls back on the students themselves. A study conducted by Barbara Radziszewska, Jean Richardson, Clyde Dent, and Brian Flay on Parenting Style and Adolescent…Academic
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The family is single parent structured and the mother has never been married. After asking the question: How does parenting style affect adolescent academic performance? She replied that she does think that parenting style affects adolescent academic performance because “parents are the child’s first teacher”. Meaning that the first people that a child learns from is their parents. If a child a more open and able to express his or her feelings they will be more likely to be able to express what they do and don’t understand about schooling, making them more likely to speak up when they need …show more content…
When parents are the initial teachers children ever encounter, that can make or break how they view education as a whole. The more closed off parents are from their children and the less they communicate with their adolescents, the more likely their children are to have a negative connotation toward school and education. Furthermore, if parents in both Australia and U.S. experience similar outcomes when using authoritative parenting styles, it can be said that warmer parenting is correlated with higher grades and other academic achievements. Contrary to what I believe there are those adolescents who achieve more in spite of having experienced negative parenting techniques. Some adolescents are more resilient and tend to progress in any environment. There will always will be those who lie outside of the common norm, but ultimately positive parenting creates positive
The family is single parent structured and the mother has never been married. After asking the question: How does parenting style affect adolescent academic performance? She replied that she does think that parenting style affects adolescent academic performance because “parents are the child’s first teacher”. Meaning that the first people that a child learns from is their parents. If a child a more open and able to express his or her feelings they will be more likely to be able to express what they do and don’t understand about schooling, making them more likely to speak up when they need …show more content…
When parents are the initial teachers children ever encounter, that can make or break how they view education as a whole. The more closed off parents are from their children and the less they communicate with their adolescents, the more likely their children are to have a negative connotation toward school and education. Furthermore, if parents in both Australia and U.S. experience similar outcomes when using authoritative parenting styles, it can be said that warmer parenting is correlated with higher grades and other academic achievements. Contrary to what I believe there are those adolescents who achieve more in spite of having experienced negative parenting techniques. Some adolescents are more resilient and tend to progress in any environment. There will always will be those who lie outside of the common norm, but ultimately positive parenting creates positive