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Nowadays, the majority of Vietnamese students have been placed huge pressure in terms of school
results by their parents. These parents believe that high achievements in academic field will be the key
to success in the long run as well as bringing about further career prospects. However, this negative
force has been considered as detrimental to the development of the children’s mental health as well as
characteristics.

In recent years, Vietnamese parents’ high expectations in academic results for brighter future is the main
cause of children’s pressure. In particular, these parents believe that high scores at school are very
significant, which will decide their children in the long run. Nevertheless, learning is a long process that
requires the determination, patience and failures as well as low scores, but Vietnamese parents do not
seem to recognize that. Because of Vietnamese ‘parents outdated and restricted concepts, their children
have to endure various emotional, health issues and behavioral growth.

In addition, pressure in academic field are also attributed to the jealousy of parents in Vietnam. .
Obviously, parents always make a comparison between their children’s capability with the others, which
seriously affects their children in terms of psychological emotions. While these parents should encourage
their children to try hard and move forward if their children get slow scores, they usually compare them
with the others. In this way, these children will be less enthusiastic and motivated towards studying.

The pressures that Vietnamese parents placing on the children have resulted in numerous health issues
with regards to the mental and characteristic development.

The first effect of parental pressure may be related to the children’s mental health growth. Particularly,
too much expectation and pressure placed on the children make them face with stress. In other words,
to satisfy such ambitious requirements, Vietnamese parents probably compel their children to spend
most of their time for studying without relaxation as well as outdoor activities. By doing this, their
children are put in stressful conditions, which then result in various mental issues and symptoms,
ranging from the lowest level of stress to the highest level of suicidal thoughts and acts.

Dat Tan Nguyen, Christine Dedding, Tam Thi Pham, and Joske Bunders (2013) pointed out that
Vietnamese students in secondary school experience deteroarting mental health from an excessive and
academic knowledge and parental pressure. For instance, they may have to overcome some severe
mental symptoms such as depression, anxiety, stress. However, if the stress they face with becomes
chronic, they will show a tendency towards suicide. Moreover, because of stress and mental issues,
these children tend to show less interest in some daily activities such as eating, sleeping, and doing
exercises. In fact, some of them put themselves into hunger for several consecutive days while others
cannot control their food intake. In other words, stress also affects the way they manage and control
their daily routines. They seem to do everything unconsciously and do not really care about the negative
impacts of these habits on their personal health.

The second influence of parental influence is children’s personality development. In particular, a child
cannot grow up comprehensively if they have to endure pressure for the whole of their teenage period.
Parents’ peer pressure appears as an obstacle for their children as they lose their motivation in learning
and easily ignore studying or dropping out of school parental pressure has resulted in the different
behaviors of children. In other words, from an ordinary child who always feels happy and energetic, they
change to become pessimistic after a long time experiencing mental pressure.

In conclusion, Vietnamese parents’ pressure on their children turns out to be a disadvantage for their
child’s mental health and behavioral development. In fact, pressure should be prevented and replaced by
positive encouragement to give a child motivation on their academic path.

References

Dat Tan Nguyen, Christine Dedding, Tam Thi Pham, Joske Bunders, 2013, BMC Public Health, Perspectives of pupils,
parents and teachers on mental health problems among Vietnamese secondary school pupil, 13,1046,1-10,
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1046