Authoritarian Parenting

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toys now we have guests coming". Johnny then proceeds to put all his toys in his room except for one because he wants to continue playing with it until the guests arrive. Johnny's mother sees him playing with the toy and starts getting angry with him saying " Johnny did I not tell you to put your toys away? What are you still doing with a toy?" Johnny tells his mother "Mom, this is just one toy I don't want to be bored until the guests arrive. She tells Johnny "I said put your toys away not keep one out. I don't care how bored you are go and put that toy away".
This example shows how direct and demanding authoritarian parents are. They want what they want it is there way or no way and if the child can't deal with that then they will get disciplined. If Johnny were to say, " Mom, but me being punished is not fair I didn't do anything why am I being punished?" his mom would respond by saying something along the lines of " Well, you know what Johnny life is not fair." Or " I am your ...

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does not want to listen to what she has to say. Usually with authoritarian parents this happens. Eventually the kid ends up getting fed up with the demands that the parent is always giving them and just does not want to continue.
"Studies show that children raised with a strict parenting style tend to be more angry and rebellious as teenagers and young adults." Markham, L. (n.d.). In www.ahaparenting.com. Retrieved 2012. This can be extremely harmful to the kids as adults. This teaches them that after being strict for a while with a certain thing it is then ok to rebel. If they go without doing something for a while to keep themselves from away from it, but then they might rebel and ...

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