Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother Summary

Parenting styles have been considered the most powerful influence over the children’s personality, emotions and accomplishments. It has been a long time that people have been thinking which parenting style is most applicable for children. For most parents, the way they teach children is usually determined from their background or their personal experience. In the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, the author Amy Chua, a Chinese parents who compares the western parenting style with Chinese parenting style. Chua believes that under been teaching by Chinese parenting style, her children are stronger, smarter and more capable. On the other side, in the article “Mother Inferior”, a western parent, Hanna Rosin expressed disagreement with Chua’s view of Western and Chinese parenting styles. There are several differences between the Chinese parting style (Eastern parenting style) and Western parenting style regarding to culture differences. Chua and Rosin are different from the views of children’s academic success, self-esteem and the happiness. Chua states that Chinese parents used to be strict on their children’s academic success. Chinese parents usually taken on the duty of guaranteeing their children succeed in the school study. This is because most of Chinese parents consider that their children can be the …show more content…
However, Chinese parenting style may be more applicable to in Eastern countries than Western countries. European or American family may prefer to teach their children by Wester parenting style. Chinese parents are take children’ success seriously, so there are highly standard for their children. However, Western parents give children freedom to build on their own. Even though Chinese and Western parents have different view of children’s study achievement, confident and happiness, all parents’ wants is to give the best to their children and makes them successful