Behind every successful woman is a nagging mom? Teenage girls more likely to succeed if they have pushy mothers.
Information taken from article by: Ericka Rascon-Ramirez, University of Essex. March 31, 2015
Get tough with a teenage daughter and she’s likely to slam her bedroom door in protest.
But console yourself that it’s worth it in the end – because being a pushy parent is the best way to prepare her for success, say researchers.
The University of Essex study said the benefit of pushy parents was most marked among the least academic teenagers, who often have no friends or teachers willing to encourage them.
Researcher Ericka Rascon-Ramirez said: ‘In many cases we succeeded in doing what we believed was more convenient for us, even when this was against our parents’ will. But no matter how hard we tried to avoid our parents’ recommendations, it is likely that they ended up influencing, in a more subtle manner, choices that we had considered extremely personal.
‘What our parents expected about our school choices was, very likely, a major determinant of our decisions about conceiving a child or not during our teenage years.’
The study, which studied the lives of schoolgirls aged 13 and 14 from a database of 15,500 pupils, said mothers appeared to be the parent with the greatest nagging power.
‘The measure of expectations in this study reflects a combination of aspirations and beliefs about the likelihood of attending higher education reported by the main parent, who, in the majority of cases, is the mother,’
To read more: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications/523037
