Jingxuan Yang
ASA3 A3
blog 9
Nov 14
In this article, Amy Chua described
Chinese parenting, or "tiger parenting". She set herself as a “tiger
mom” by outlining her mindsets when educating her daughters, contrasting it
with Western methods, and then demonstrating the success her daughter achieved.
She claimed that Chinese parenting is more successful than Western parenting in
breeding successful children because it coerces children’s interest and pushes
children to excel at things that parents consider useful by forcing them to
practice hard.
In my opinion, the Chinese parenting
described in this article is the OLD way of Chinese parents educating their
children. Today, Chinese mothers start to encourage children to pursue their
own interests because they believe “happiness” is an important part in
children’s life. As a Chinese kid, I was never forbidden to play basketball
after school or participate in school plays even though those events cost huge
amounts of time and were not helpful in bringing up my grades.
And, Chinese mothers believe that
children can only succeed in things they are interested. Before I came to US,
my mom told me to choose a major that I would feel fun. During our weekly
skype, she always asked me if I was interested in the things I learned instead
of concerning about my grades. There was a time when I told her I suffered a
lot from a computer science class, she asked me to drop it immediately. While
many Chines mothers encourages their children to study engineering or CS since
those majors offer children well-paid jobs, my mom always keeps me away from
those majors because she know I’m neither interested nor good at them. She
wants to see me enjoy in learning rather than struggling with things I don’t
like.
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