Parents always want their children to be successful, and some of those parents push their children to the best they can. My mother is the one who would try her best to push me and my brother to the edge. “Tiger mother” is a phrase that describes mothers who really strict with their children and want them to be success with all costs. Indeed, Tiger mother might be beneficial to the child, but the family may also be stressed. I have some personal experiences with my mother, and other examples of my mother effecting the whole family. Because of my personal experiences and many people have discussed about this problem publicly, I am curious about how tiger mothers influenced other family members—the nuclear and extend families. Several years
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My parents were both raised in poor families with four siblings. They were both the oldest children in their families, which meant they had to take care of other siblings just like their parents because my grandparents had to work so hard to maintain the big family and they did not have time to take care of their children. When my mother was a student, she needed to hold a baby in her arm while she studied. My father had a navvy job, digging tunnels, when he was in college because his parents could not afford his sisters to go to high schools. Because we were living in a terrible environment, students who do not study would join gangster groups, and my parents have seen too many cases, so I think this is the reason why they were so strict with us, so that we do not take the same steps as those …show more content…
We end up had a big fight with my mother. No one talks about the problem after the fight, perhaps, after the fight we all known what kind of role we should play in this family to maintain a peace family relationship. Everything changed after the fight, my mother sometimes would be the first person open the talks with me and my brother, but I still wish we could have set down and talk through those issues at first, instead of fight over it. This lead to the question, how tiger mother influenced the unity of the family? Does she know that she influenced others? I felt my mother wanted to sacrifice everything so that she can give her children and extend family children the best education she could offer. I would like to research on these topics and find out the influences by tiger
My parents were both raised in poor families with four siblings. They were both the oldest children in their families, which meant they had to take care of other siblings just like their parents because my grandparents had to work so hard to maintain the big family and they did not have time to take care of their children. When my mother was a student, she needed to hold a baby in her arm while she studied. My father had a navvy job, digging tunnels, when he was in college because his parents could not afford his sisters to go to high schools. Because we were living in a terrible environment, students who do not study would join gangster groups, and my parents have seen too many cases, so I think this is the reason why they were so strict with us, so that we do not take the same steps as those …show more content…
We end up had a big fight with my mother. No one talks about the problem after the fight, perhaps, after the fight we all known what kind of role we should play in this family to maintain a peace family relationship. Everything changed after the fight, my mother sometimes would be the first person open the talks with me and my brother, but I still wish we could have set down and talk through those issues at first, instead of fight over it. This lead to the question, how tiger mother influenced the unity of the family? Does she know that she influenced others? I felt my mother wanted to sacrifice everything so that she can give her children and extend family children the best education she could offer. I would like to research on these topics and find out the influences by tiger