Personal Narrative: Social Identity

Social identity is defined how we identify selves to other people. There was a time when I disagreed with my parents about my identity, how I present myself in our society. My parents identify themselves according to our religion/culture or where we are from. As an only child to my parents, when I was a kid, my parents used to decide everything about me. From the clothes I wear, the food I eat and the people I am in-group with. As a kid it was nice thing, I was protected by parents support plus I wasn’t mature enough to make better decisions by self. Eventually, I started to grow up and was in the years of adolescence period. As a teenager, I was in unceasing process to describe my social identity. I used to experiment my hair with bright colors, …show more content…
While I was maintaining my own individuality and self-esteem, my family couldn’t oppose anything that violates our values and mores we hold. For me, it was totally normal to have my own ideas and thoughts but my parents had difficult time adjusting as I changed. Like most of the families, it caused a lot of disputes as I felt my parents don’t respect my decision and for them, I was a child who they used to decide everything and I didn’t mind. As I am over my teenage, I slowly started to accept my parent’s identity. At the end, I feel they are right and they have been once in their teen life, therefore, they can relate things in life. My parents carry identity as a friend and a role model. As a parent, they interact with me. Lastly, my parent’s definition of identity was …show more content…
Whereas, democratic family is considered to be better and positive parenting. Similarly, those teachers who use authoritarian approach might use loud voice and show strictness to their students while democratic approach would use democratic environment allowing students to engage freely. The pros of having autocratic family are parents know what is best for their kids. The kids will have good reading, science and math’s standards. Authoritarian parenting helps shaping their children to be disciplined and responsible citizens. The cons of authoritarian family are children who are pressured by parents to have excellent grades will hate school. They will undergo psychological problems such as depression, anxiety. Children lacks creativity and imagination. However, democratic parenting helps in psychological development of children. Children feel free to communicate the ideas and feelings with the parents. Moreover, children are punished for wrongful acts but those punishments are not too harsh comparing the authoritarian parenting style. It makes children independent and can make their own decisions. The cons of democratic parenting styles are it is effective on young kids. Also, though kids are being over loved, they feel lonely and unhappy, tends to have poor school grades and run away from taking