Sometime last week I came across the Chua’s article about how she raised her kids and how inferior it made western parents. I also seen how her parenting styles affect kids through how my western classmates responded in a seminar. I saw the reasoning for Chua’s style of raising her kids but my classmates thought it was outlandish. The majority of both parents and children thought the way she is raising her kids will damage the kids happiness, social skills, and will not allow them to be themselves. However Tina Griego, a print journalist with 24 years of experience in daily newspapers, had a different view on the “Chinese” parenting style. Tina connects the parenting style with values, influences and cultures and how that shapes a child rather
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The “chinese” parenting style is focused around making themselves successful in economical status, as it is an essential sense of empowerment taught at an early age. Chinese children are often raised to be prepared to compete amongst themselves and against the world, from schools and universities, to jobs in their professions in the working world. Chau describes the restrictions she put on daughters’ childhood such as no play dates, sleepovers, or choice of their own extracurricular activities. The strongest demand of her parental guidance was the expectation of her children to be number one academically in almost every subject. To the average American parent, this style of parenting sounds extremely unreasonable as it seems to lack any sense of balance of a social life for children. She contrasts the parenting of Western parents to Chinese parenting, establishing the Western strict values while giving a direct understanding of how much stricter Chinese parenting is. For example, a task strict Western parents may make their kids focus on for an hour, Chinese parents will expect their child to dedicate three hours to. Western parents believe in displaying an environment to show their children learning is fun, where Chinese mothers completely disagree. Chau explains Chinese parents choose to override the preferences of their children in order …show more content…
It is understood the importance that success is emphasised throughout some point of life for all human beings. With both Western and Chinese parenting, this success component is evident at early stages of childhood with above average expectations coming from parents. I do agree that success fuels the parenting styles of both Western and Chinese parenting but I do feel indifferent about its approaches. I disagree with the level of expectations put on the children as it is strict and not ideal for their mental and emotional development. I extremely disagree with the level of restriction Chau put on her children in reference to their social lives. Creating such great restriction on their social development at an early age causes concern for their future, such as communicating in the professional world. I do agree with Western parenting going above the average expectations and adding a level of challenge such as adding extra time to a task that usually only gets devotion for a portion of the time. This teaches their children to go the extra mile for success without taking the extreme measures of Chinese parenting. Both parenting styles create various levels of restriction on the children in order to meet common goals of
The “chinese” parenting style is focused around making themselves successful in economical status, as it is an essential sense of empowerment taught at an early age. Chinese children are often raised to be prepared to compete amongst themselves and against the world, from schools and universities, to jobs in their professions in the working world. Chau describes the restrictions she put on daughters’ childhood such as no play dates, sleepovers, or choice of their own extracurricular activities. The strongest demand of her parental guidance was the expectation of her children to be number one academically in almost every subject. To the average American parent, this style of parenting sounds extremely unreasonable as it seems to lack any sense of balance of a social life for children. She contrasts the parenting of Western parents to Chinese parenting, establishing the Western strict values while giving a direct understanding of how much stricter Chinese parenting is. For example, a task strict Western parents may make their kids focus on for an hour, Chinese parents will expect their child to dedicate three hours to. Western parents believe in displaying an environment to show their children learning is fun, where Chinese mothers completely disagree. Chau explains Chinese parents choose to override the preferences of their children in order …show more content…
It is understood the importance that success is emphasised throughout some point of life for all human beings. With both Western and Chinese parenting, this success component is evident at early stages of childhood with above average expectations coming from parents. I do agree that success fuels the parenting styles of both Western and Chinese parenting but I do feel indifferent about its approaches. I disagree with the level of expectations put on the children as it is strict and not ideal for their mental and emotional development. I extremely disagree with the level of restriction Chau put on her children in reference to their social lives. Creating such great restriction on their social development at an early age causes concern for their future, such as communicating in the professional world. I do agree with Western parenting going above the average expectations and adding a level of challenge such as adding extra time to a task that usually only gets devotion for a portion of the time. This teaches their children to go the extra mile for success without taking the extreme measures of Chinese parenting. Both parenting styles create various levels of restriction on the children in order to meet common goals of