Parenting plays a key role in nurturing a child. Parents can be strict in teaching their children discipline, but being overly strict can have several adverse effects. Here are a few significant impacts of being overly strict with your child. Take note and avoid doing that.
1) Poor Academics & Anxiety: When parents pressurize their children for higher academic excellence, the excess pressure leads to negative results. The children tend to focus on punishment, which prohibits their performance. Not only this, but children may also develop frustration with education and schools. Being too controlling creates an atmosphere of constant pressure, which builds up anxiety issues, as your child may think too much about fear and mistakes, which may lead to punishment.
2) Mental Fatigue & Poor Decision-Making: Due to anxiety and fear, children fear being trapped, which may lead to long-term mental health issues like depression or panic attacks. Also, taking the right to make decisions will suppress their ability to develop decision-making and problem-solving skills.
3) Hinders Social Skills & Promotes Aggression: When you constantly compare your child with others, it makes them feel dull and worthless. Due to this, their self-esteem goes down, and they tend to socialize less. At the same time, an overly controlling atmosphere makes children irritated. They don’t get to express their emotions and feelings, which leads to a lack of experience channeling their emotions. All this, as a result, increases aggressiveness.
