Tiger parenting is a term which refers to strict or demanding parenting that pushes children to be successful academically by attaining high levels of scholastic and academic achievement, using methods regarded as typical of childrearing in areas of East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Children are punished for failure (especially in the academic world) and for not meeting up to the parents' expectations. Most people do not even know what tiger parenting is and for those who understand what it is tend to overlook such topic as it is seen as a typical Asian upbringing. There is a lot of negative opinions over this topic about how it is too much like authoritarian parenting (a very restrictive, punishment-heavy parenting style) compared
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Dr. Gwen Dewar is a graduate of UC Berkeley and received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she was trained in anthropology, behavioral ecology, primatology, and evolutionary and comparative psychology. Dewar's article was written in a very informative manner where there was very little bias and included evidence from a variety of sources which includes first-hand accounts and peer-reviewed articles which adds to the credibility of Dewar's research. The author effectively uses first-hand accounts from Amy Chua's autobiographical book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, that describes Chua's opinion of the most effective parenting method, in order to provide an insight on how tiger parents push and challenge their children to success. When Amy Chua's 7-year-old daughter failed to master a new piece on the piano, Chua drove her relentlessly. Chua said that she “threatened [her daughter] with no lunch, no dinner, no Christmas or Hanukkah presents, and no birthday parties for two, three, four years" (Dewar). Through this evidence the author provided, Dewar appeals to her audience as she conveys a sense of shock and disbelief over how Chua would treat her seven-year-old daughter. By choosing to showcase this one particular scene as an example of tiger parenting, the author subtly expresses of how harsh tiger parenting can
Dr. Gwen Dewar is a graduate of UC Berkeley and received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she was trained in anthropology, behavioral ecology, primatology, and evolutionary and comparative psychology. Dewar's article was written in a very informative manner where there was very little bias and included evidence from a variety of sources which includes first-hand accounts and peer-reviewed articles which adds to the credibility of Dewar's research. The author effectively uses first-hand accounts from Amy Chua's autobiographical book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, that describes Chua's opinion of the most effective parenting method, in order to provide an insight on how tiger parents push and challenge their children to success. When Amy Chua's 7-year-old daughter failed to master a new piece on the piano, Chua drove her relentlessly. Chua said that she “threatened [her daughter] with no lunch, no dinner, no Christmas or Hanukkah presents, and no birthday parties for two, three, four years" (Dewar). Through this evidence the author provided, Dewar appeals to her audience as she conveys a sense of shock and disbelief over how Chua would treat her seven-year-old daughter. By choosing to showcase this one particular scene as an example of tiger parenting, the author subtly expresses of how harsh tiger parenting can