Disciplinary Practices Adopted By Parents

Adolescence is perhaps the most difficult period of child rearing for parents. Discipline is to mould the child so that he will conform to the traditional expectations of the cultural group to which he belongs.  Parental discipline is an important variable in connection that ultimately would reveal the behaviour of the child in different situations, which would determine the child’s capacity to adjust to different surroundings, particularly in school. This study was thus taken up to identify the differences in disciplinary practices perceived by parents from different occupational strata and their adolescent children.