The parenting practices are the forms used by parents to impound their children's behavior. From this perspective, the goal of this study was to analyze how parenting styles and children's academic achievement relate to one other; thus, all children's school grades in the subjects of Mathematics and Portuguese were recorded. Study participants were 203 children aged between eight and eleven years old, of both sexes, who were enrolled between third and fifth year from two public schools in the interior of Paraná, Brazil. Participants responded to Parenting Styles Inventory. Correlations were found between education and academic performance, especially with maternal practices. Significant differences were observed in mean parenting practices and parenting styles referenced by students with high and low academic performance. The maternal and Discusses the importance of parenting, especially the maternal in academic development of children.
Parent-child interaction; School performance; Child development
