Parenting and Children’s Academic Performance: Connections and Consequences

To educate children, parents construct their own parenting styles which effect the academic achievement of the child. Effect of parenting style on the academic achievement of the secondary school children has been the question of this ex-post facto research, Sample of the study constituted 154 secondary school students, both male and female. Parenting styles of the parents of the selected learners were identified by using a closed form of questionnaire to be filled in by the learners. The academic achievement of the selected children was measured by calculating the mean scores of the compulsory subjects for the last three annual results. Data was analyzed statistically by calculating Pearson’s correlation.. The study led to the findings that the parenting styles have been positively associated with the academic achievement of the secondary school pupils in Pakistan and it was further found out that the authoritative and authoritarian parenting are positively related to the academic achievement of the students at secondary school level whereas permissive and indulgent parenting are negatively related to the academic achievement of the students at secondary school level.