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Response 9 on "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior" by Amy Chua
From what I can see in that excerpt, Amy Chua was pretty a very hardcore tiger mom. Harping and shouting at your 7 year old kid to play a complicated piano piece, with techniques she's probably never encountered before) all through the night sounds harsh. But Lulu actually succeeded in playing that piece, after those hours of shouting and "encouraging" insults. It makes me think that if parents never, never stop harping on a kid until they succeed, then the kid would eventually succeed, versus just intense "encouragement" and then giving up on particularly hard cases, which, without that success, might make the kid believe they actually are worthless. In the other article by Chua's older daughter, she says that her mom taught her to always give "110%", and also says that she still had fun times with her mom, as long as she got her other responsibilities done. And that sounds reasonable; Have fun when you've done your responsibilities.
Still, even if the "tiger mom" method works for some, I still think it's kind of cruel in it's ferocity and necessarily limits what the kid will grow up enjoying into specific, usually profitable and "respectable" sectors.
Question: Does this method stifle interests the kid might have that are different from what their parents want, or would Chua incorporate those interests with the same fervor?
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