Why Chinesse Mothers Are Superior?

March 8 / 2011
Amy Chua

Less than a fortnight into the fresh year and already one of the most
controversial books of 2011 has emerged. scrap Hymn of the Tiger Mother an autobiographical study of the failings of westbound parenting by Yale law professor Amy Chua has just been published in the US to a mixed chorus of plaudits and outrage.

Chua who is matrimonial to novelist Jed Rubenfeld, author of The Interpretation of Murder relates in the book how she approached the rear of her own two daughters, Sophia and Lulu, with the strictness of the Chinese child-rearing model she contractable from her own parents.

The Tiger, Chua explains, is the living symbol of strength and power, exalt fear and respect. And as a Tiger mother herself, she mistaken the absolute right to dictate her childrens activities and demand rigorous donnish standards of them at all times, ridiculing them if necessary to spur them on to greater efforts.

Her children were never allowed to attend a sleepover, have a playdate, checker TV or choose their own extracurricular activities.



They were in like manner expected to be top in every assailable (except gym and drama) and never get anything other than A-grades because, Chua explains, Chinese parents accept it is their responsibility to ensure their childrens academic achievement above everything else.

Chua argues that horse opera parents. with their emphasis on nurturing their childrens self-esteem and allowing free expression, have draw their children up to accept mediocrity. Western parents are concerned rough their childrens psyches. Chinese parents arent. They assume strength, not fragility, and as a resolving they behave very differently, she says. If their child doesnt achieve perfect interrogatory results, the Chinese parent assumes its because he or she didnt work sullen enough. Thats why the solution to substandard performance is always to excoriate, punish and shame the child, Chua says. And it is crucial for a mother to have the...If you insufficiency to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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