Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother Summary

Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School and author of the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. She has a clear and simple thesis that Chinese parents use superior techniques than Western parents when raising their children. In Chua's commitment with preventing her children from failing and making them into “successful” stereotypical chinese children, she has deprived them of a childhood. Chua's parenting has only led to the deprivation of their childhoods, anger caused between both her and her husband, and the sadness within her children.
In the excerpt, Chua gives a list of rules that her children are never allowed to do. Some of these rules include: letting them choose their own extracurricular activities, going to a slumber party, being …show more content…
Logos is used when she brings up a study done with 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers. According to the data, “almost 70% of the Western mothers said either that ‘stressing academic success is not good for children’ or that ‘parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun.’ By contrast, roughly 0% of the Chinese mothers felt the same way”. Chua believes that once one is good at a subject then it will be fun. To become good you have to practice and work for it daily. Naturally children wouldn't want to do something they hate, so it is a parent's duty to push them into it no matter how much they resist and resent. Comparing Western parents to those of Chinese heritage she claims that the Western strategy usually results in a failure and that defeat to the parents comes too easily. Chua tells a story of a time when her own father verbally abusing her by calling her garbage in her native tongue. Without delay she then says that she had done the same to her own daughter by calling her garbage in english when she acted in a disrespectful manner. Another reason she feels the Chinese tactics are far superior is that she believes they get away with saying more to