Abstract
The study investigated the influence parents’ proactive steps on children’s unacceptable behaviours at home and its implications for academic achievements. Four research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The research design adopted for the study was a survey research design. The study was carried out in 42 Government owned primary schools and 10 schools were selected out of the 42 schools using simple sampling by balloting method. All the 126 parents from the 10 sampled schools that have wards in senior basic who attended the PTA meeting that marks the beginning of first term 2024 mid-term break were used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a 4-point structured questionnaire. The instrument was validated by experts and its reliability index tested with Cronbach alpha. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviations while Chi-square statistics was used in testing the hypotheses. The results of the study showed that the common unacceptable behaviours of children in Orumba south LGA include talking back at parents, refusing to do house chores, bulling etc. The results also revealed among others that parents use diverse proactive steps in preventing these unacceptable behaviours in children which have great positive influence on children’s unacceptable behaviours and their academic achievements. Based on the results of the study, it was recommended among others that the government should organize counselling programs so as to provide literacy awareness to all parents in managing unacceptable behaviours in children

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