Confirmation

Using the young girl in the prior paragraph, the girl's parents, made her feel insecure. The cause of her insecurity is the fact that the girl had to follow all of her parent's decisions. The more her parents scorned her about grades, the more the girl was "...getting conditioned to knowing what not to do rather than what to do" (Authoritarian Parenting- The Outcomes for Being Demanding and Dictatorial"). This is a problem because the girl is more concerned about pleasing her parents rather than thinking for herself. Since the girl is in an environment where she only follows the guidance of her parents, she finds herself having no desire to explore or act independently since her choices are already provided for her (Cherry). To add to that, the girl starts to have difficulty dealing with different social situations since most of it has been taken care of by her parents (Cline and Fay 25).

When time comes for the girl to grow up and settle somewhere in society, she would find herself unprepared, confused, and overwhelmed. This reaction can be explained through the human brain. Researchers found that those children who were raised through strict and unsupportive parents had an unstable amygdala, which controls a person's emotions, and a smaller hippocampus, which controls a person's memories and thought processes. As a result, those children who were found with the unstable amygdala and the smaller hippocampus had a harder time controlling their emotions and balancing their thought processes through decision making (Dryden).


Continuing on, the authoritarian parenting way promotes early rebellion. This happens because "...the consequences of authoritarian parenting depends on how it is used. When it becomes an oppressive tyranny, then a child can be crushed under its heaviness" (Brown). Unlike an adult, a child has a patience level of a small metal spring. A child could be pushed by their parents at a limit, and at any given moment, push back with an unproportionate force (Brown). To enhance this point, Amy Chua wrote a personal testimonial in her book that could compare perfectly with Brown's metal spring analogy. After piling Louisa, her youngest daughter, with many difficult responsibilities, after calling her daughter a barbarian, after naming her daughter common and low, and after forcing her daughter to play the violin for nine hours everyday, Louisa finally snapped back to her mother. "You don't love me," Lulu spat, "You think you do, but you don't. You just make me feel bad about myself every second. You've wrecked my life. I can't stand to be around you. Is that what you want?" (Chua 205). In this case, Louisa reacted like any child would react. She felt cornered by her mother's taunting word and responded with anger. Hence, each child can take only so much, and the girl described in the second paragraph also isn't an exception. The girl, despite fearing her parents, could snap with anger and frustration. If not handled properly, the child's behavior could result in sour bitterness and early rebellion.