Overprotective parents have more successful kids, study finds
You may roll your eyes at the helicopter, tiger or lawnmower mums in the playground, but it seems that their over-parenting ways are paying off!
A new study has found that overprotective parents are more likely to have successful kids in life.
(If youโre unaware of the terms for different types of parenting, a helicopter mum is a protective mum who hovers over her children, aย tiger mum is a strict parent who uses tough love and discipline to help their child succeed and a lawnmower parent intervenes or โmows downโ any person or obstacle that stands in their childโs way.)
Study finds helicopter mums have more successful kids
A study from the University of Essex in the UK found that kids, especially girls, who have mums that set very high standards for them are more likely to be more successful in life.
15,500 students were analysed and researchers found that parents who have higher expectations of their children ended up with kids who made good choices, ultimately leading to a high-earning career.
ย โIn many cases, we succeeded in doing what we believed was more convenient for us, even when this was against our parentsโ will,โ says Ericka Rascon-Ramirez, who led the study.
โBut no matter how hard we tried to avoid our parentsโ recommendations, it is likely that they ended up influencingโฆchoices.โ
Parents with a more intensive style of parenting have more accomplished kids
Meanwhile, new research by two U.S. economists found that parents who have a more โintensiveโ style of parenting often have more accomplished children.
Matthias Doepke of Northwest University and Fabrizio Zilibotti of Yale University analysed several different data sets and studies. They published their findings in their book, Love, Money and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids.
Matthias and Fabrizio found there was a correlation between children that score high in their tests at secondary school and having intensive parents, no matter how well educated their parents were.
Whatโs more, kids who had a parent with an โauthoritative styleโ were more likely to graduate from university.
However, they stress thereโs a difference between an authoritative parent and authoritarian parent, the latter being someone who expects their children to obey them and can often be aggressive.
Pamela Druckerman, an opinion writer commenting on these findings, tells The New York Times that authoritative parents are said to use โreasoning to persuade kids to do things that are good for them.
โInstead of strict obedience, they emphasise adaptability,ย problem-solving and independenceโskills that will help their offspring in future workplaces that we canโt even imagine yet.โ
Pamela added: โWorking-class and poor parents might not have the leisure time to hover or the budget to pay for activities and expensive schools.
โAnd they may rightly feel that they need to prepare their children for jobs in which rule-following matters more than debating skills.โ
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