Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, the author of “The World on Fire”, “Day of Empire”, and “Why They Fall”, in a Wall street Journal on January 8th, 2011, wrote “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”. Amy is known as a ‘Tiger Mom”, one who pushes their children to be the best of the best academically. Chinese parents raise their children to meet high expectations. They want them to be very well prepared for the future. Chinese parenting may make your son or daughter a prodigy, but is it what is best for them?
Everyone is so clueless about how the chinese children excel above each and everyone of us. To become as great as they are the chinese children have to abide to some very strict rules.. They cannot hang out with friends, watch tv, play games, get a grade less than an A, choose their own extracurricular activities, and more. They must play either the piano or violin, nothing else. Many other ethnic groups believe in …show more content…
You should not tell them what to enjoy and be good at. In school I think all kids should be the smartest, but outside the classroom they should have some freedom. As long as they are getting their schoolwork done and getting good grades they should be able to choose their own extracurricular activities as long as they aren’t bad decisions. It is not right that chinese parents can pretty much get away with abuse. Western parents should not just give their kids a self-esteem boost, but actually try to help them and prepare them for the situation. Children should not owe their parents anything. The parents are the ones who chose to have a child and bring them into this world, so they should not have to repay them. I do think it is nice that when your parents do get old and struggle that you do help them out without with whatever you can. All children should try to make their parents proud. Any kid who can make a good living is nice and takes a lot of stress off of
Everyone is so clueless about how the chinese children excel above each and everyone of us. To become as great as they are the chinese children have to abide to some very strict rules.. They cannot hang out with friends, watch tv, play games, get a grade less than an A, choose their own extracurricular activities, and more. They must play either the piano or violin, nothing else. Many other ethnic groups believe in …show more content…
You should not tell them what to enjoy and be good at. In school I think all kids should be the smartest, but outside the classroom they should have some freedom. As long as they are getting their schoolwork done and getting good grades they should be able to choose their own extracurricular activities as long as they aren’t bad decisions. It is not right that chinese parents can pretty much get away with abuse. Western parents should not just give their kids a self-esteem boost, but actually try to help them and prepare them for the situation. Children should not owe their parents anything. The parents are the ones who chose to have a child and bring them into this world, so they should not have to repay them. I do think it is nice that when your parents do get old and struggle that you do help them out without with whatever you can. All children should try to make their parents proud. Any kid who can make a good living is nice and takes a lot of stress off of