Why do people don't like authoritarian parenting?

[Anonymous]

[SnowedIn]

Because it's terrible for the child. It's often unkind and not thoughtful. But far more importantly, it doesn't build trust or relationships. Even more importantly, it doesn't set the child up well to be an adult or make decisions or exercise critical thinking. Authoritarian parenting usually doesn't allow for mistakes and mistakes are how we learn best. It increases the chances that kids are going to do things sneakily and when you do things sneakily, the chance of problems is mightily increased. There are zero benefits to the child or society or the family from authoritarian parenting.

[SnowedIn]

Thank you for MHO!

[Asker]

You're welcome.

[Guy13]

Assertive parenting is good. Authoritarian parenting suggests that the child has no rights, abilities to choose, and may be getting emotional or physical abuse. Strict and Assertive parenting styles are very different from an authoritarian dictator style.

[Jamie05rhs]

Because if you don't teach your kids self discipline, then they won't know how to handle themselves and behave with a lack of supervision. And then they destroy their lives.