PARENTING STYLES ON CHILDREN’S SELF-CONCEPT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

ABSTRACT
Parenting is a joy to parents and every parent without a child looks forward to that. However, parenting is not just an event, it is a responsibility. The child’s core needs depends on the parents and the parents are under obligation to provide the necessities for that child. One of the core needs of children is their mental development. Mental development has to do with both formal and informal education. The much of one and the less of the other will make the child less efficient. Therefore there is a need to balance the forms of education received by a child. This study was undertaken to examine the relationship that exist between parenting styles and child’s concept and its effect on academic performance. The study had a population of 200 students and a sample size of 133. The study developed and tested hypotheses using chi-square statistical tool.