Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother Analysis

In the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, Chua pushes the limits of her daughters’ happiness in order for them to be successful. Many people believe that because of this, she is risking their happiness. I, on the other hand, personally believe that Chua is raising her children without much risk. In the book, Chua tells us a story about how Lulu and Sophia made her birthday cards that were unsatisfactory and how she forced them to make better ones. She further explains, “I gave the card back to Lulu. ‘I don’t want this,’ I said. ‘I want a better one – one that you’ve put some thought and effort into. I have a special box, where I keep all my cards from you and Sophia, and this one can’t go in there’” (Chua 111). With this experience, she was teaching her children that in order to be successful, as well as making something special for someone, you must put time and effort into it. Chua taught them a lesson, but at the expense of her daughters’ pride in something she made. Some might see this as rude and uncalled for, but I see it as a good way to teach a lesson. …show more content…
Based on her Chinese parenting ways and the examples of what not to do while parenting on psychologytoday.com, some would clearly say that Chua is pushing her kids too hard in order to be successful. They say that there are “ineffective ways of communicating that lead to noncompliance and power struggles, or damage self-esteem.” Some of the “ineffective ways” that they later describe include some of the methods that Chinese parenting includes. The only problem with that is that Chinese-raised children learn how to overcome that low self-esteem and learn from what they are being put down