Parenting style is one of the most important factors influencing children's academic performance, since parents are the "first teachers". In Hong Kong, many parents adopt authoritarian parenting methods, which emphasize children's absolute obedience to their rules. In Hong Kong, parents generally believed that authoritative parenting was the best way to improve their children's academic performance by having a "good starting point." Therefore, this essay will discuss how authoritarian parenting affects children's interest in learning and psychological problems. Then it will provide arguments that authoritarian parenting is not the best way to develop children's academic performance. First, children may lose interest in learning due to authoritarian parenting. In order to improve their children's academic performance, parents forced their children to participate in a wide variety of educational and extracurricular classes. Then children will not have enough time to rest, it will affect the learning efficiency, children will not have enough attention during class. According to the most famous "tiger mom", Amy Chua said that "love is more than high expectations, she does everything, it's good for her daughter." So that regardless of weekends and holidays, children must continue to study and practice” (Annie, 1). For children to obey and follow the order, and she believed that the most important thing to succeed was to practice, so children should spend time studying, not playing. Under enormous pressure, children perform well if they only want to meet their parents' expectations. But children may not want to be part of the elites, even some of them will do it against the will of learning. In order...... middle of paper ......ft.jtitle=Early%20Child%20Development%20and%20Care&rft.btitle=&rft.aulast=Chan&rft.auinit=SM&rft.auinit1=&rft.auinitm =&rft .ausuffix=&rft.au=Chan%2C%20S.M.&rft.aucorp=&rft.date=20091001&rft.volume=179&rft.issue=7&rft.part=&rft. quarter=&rft.ssn=&rft.spage=849&rft.epage =862&rft.pages=&rft.artnum=&rft.issn=03004430&rft.eissn=14768275&rft.isbn=&rft.sici=&rft.coden=ECDCA&rft_id=info:doi/10.1080/ 03004430701536525&rft.object_id=&svc _val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev :mtx:sch_svc&svc.fulltext=yes&rft_dat=2-s2.0-70350337884&rft.eisbn=&rft_id=info:oai/Web. March 21, 2014. Item 4: Murphy Paul, Annie. "Tiger Moms: Is difficult parenting really the answer?". » TIME MAGAZINE. Np, and http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2043477,00.html Web. March 20, 2014. Item 5: MH, Bond and Hwang KK The psychology of the Chinese people. New York: Oxford UP., 1986. Print.