Analysis Of Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior

The Wall Street Journal published an article “Why Chinese Mothers are superior” on January 8th 2011 written by Amy Chua. Amy Chua, author, is a lawyer and currently a teacher at the Yale Law School. Chua has been working at Yale since 2011, before Yale she was teaching at Duke Law School for seven years. Chua wrote this article to express herself on her parenting skills which she calls “Chinese Mother” and how other parents have a very different parenting style than hers which she calls “Western parenting” in other words weak parenting. Notice am using quotation marks around those two terms that 's because amy uses these terms not in a literal sense of ethnic meaning but she uses it more of like a metaphore. So as you can believe this started …show more content…
Chua shows us so many great examples of how to get your kids to practice and actually learn any material and it all starts with how you raise a child if you let them slack off and accept too many failures from them at one point they 'll see a pattern and use it to their advantage. Then the child and parent bond is lost and it all goes downhill. But if you teach them from an early age that education is truly the key to great and successful life then that 's all they will want. Also another great point Chua makes is on how “Chinese Parents” believe that if their child has done poorly or failed a course it is the child 's fault for not working hard enough and putting enough hours and dedication into the subject. Unlike “Western Parents” that if they see their child struggling or not doing so well they will automatically blame another thing other than their child such as the subject or even teachers or the whole system the school is under. Which to me seems wrong because that 's what teachers are for to teach but a teacher cannot teach if a student is not willing to learn. I also agree somewhat with David Brooks which critiques Chua in his critique “Amy Chua is a wimp” he states that Chua is too soft on her kids because she is isolating her them with academic work from the real threat life has to offer which is its own society and human interactions. Chua should let her children learn how to interact with large groups such as party and sleepovers and things of that nature. Which brings me to one of my points which i disagree with chua which is believing that children owe their parents everything. I disagree with Chua here because sure our kids do give us hard times and take up a lot of time and effort but we made them we wanted them not the