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Using intimidation to teach covers a wide spectrum of various ways that people use intimidation while trying to teach something to someone, but I think most of us would agree that using intimidation to teach, especially a child, is a dangerous situation and definitely a form of abuse. When Parents use it to guide a child to make what the 'parent' considers the right choice, or the right thing to do, a vicious cycle is being created, or as the music group "Lifehouse" states in a song, the child becomes a part of this "Sick Cycle Carousel",and the child will most likely develop a mentality that using intimidation as the "rule" will insure everyone can make the right choices and know the correct ways if they're just given a "little friendly push or nudge".

The intimidation method, more than not, would get carried from childhood to adulthood, then to their children, and like a carousel, will continue in motion, round and round and round it will go.
I'm not whole heartedly convinced that when a child grows to adulthood, they will always mirror their parents habits, or be "just like Mom or Dad".
I do,however, feel it's inevitable that some of who your parents are, good and bad, get instilled in us during our childhood, and it's up to us, when we become parents ourselves, to sort or weed out, harmful ways of teaching or guiding our children through life.

Along with that, using intimidation to teach, or guide, can be very damaging to the child's self esteem, to who or what they view themselves to be as they grow up. If children are not given the opportunity to make their own decisions, select their own choices, and even make their own mistakes, that can leave the child to doubt themselves and any future decisions they make, or paths they choose. They might end up spending their entire lives looking for someone to tell them that what they are doing is right, wrong or is the best thing to do.
Enter in "self doubt/self worth"
Self doubt can be crippling and debilitating. If intimidation is used for a teaching tool as an adult, the result is basically the same, I can attest to that.
I have been told in the past at a particular job, more than once, that "I was not a good leader" because the perception of the peers I was supposed to be "leading",(I was a supervisor of sorts), was that I seemed to second guess my answer to their questions, and that I would frequently seek clarification from a second source, leaving them to wonder if I even knew my

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