Adams reports that Su Yeong Kim, a professor at the University of Texas, conducted a study to find which parenting style, if any, is the most effective. In Kim’s study, she found that tiger parents are “warm and they monitor their kids closely”, but also demonstrate “hostility toward bad behavior, at times punishing their children with no explanation, and using shame as a way to mold behavior” (Adams 324). Kim found that supportive parents, which is the typical parenting style in Western families, are also warm and they monitor their children, but they do not shame and discipline without reason or explanation. The study concluded that supportive parents have children who “did well academically while not feeling oppressed by the pressure” (Adams 324). They also had closer relationships with their families. On the other hand, children of tiger parents were found to not do as well academically and socially as children of supportive parents did. In addition, they had more emotional problems and were not as close to their
Adams reports that Su Yeong Kim, a professor at the University of Texas, conducted a study to find which parenting style, if any, is the most effective. In Kim’s study, she found that tiger parents are “warm and they monitor their kids closely”, but also demonstrate “hostility toward bad behavior, at times punishing their children with no explanation, and using shame as a way to mold behavior” (Adams 324). Kim found that supportive parents, which is the typical parenting style in Western families, are also warm and they monitor their children, but they do not shame and discipline without reason or explanation. The study concluded that supportive parents have children who “did well academically while not feeling oppressed by the pressure” (Adams 324). They also had closer relationships with their families. On the other hand, children of tiger parents were found to not do as well academically and socially as children of supportive parents did. In addition, they had more emotional problems and were not as close to their