Battle Hymn

In Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior, the author Amy Chua uses ethos, logos and pathos to persuade her readers that the Chinese style of parenting is superior to the Western method; however, I do not believe that her argument is effective.

Extreme or aggressive parenting techniques are ineffective and can irreparably damage a child’s psyche. Many children raised by overly strict parents lack initiative and creativity (“Extreme Parenting.”). Scout Masterson and Bill Horn freak-out after seeing the matching cheetah pajamas. They informed Nana that if she repeats the pajama catastrophe she will not be able to have another sleepover with Simone. Simone was only three year old and was going to have her first sleep over with her grandmother. But her nerves and controlling parents kept checking up on her bay video chat. She’s a three year old girl that is not invaded to nanas home a

Amy Chua stirs up a controversial topic of the differences between Chinese and Western parenting styles in the article “Adapted from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. One may believe that the Chinese way is too harsh as others may believe Western parents are too lenient. Any parent can relate to one or both parenting styles that Chua is discussing. This article is reaching out to parents who are unaware of the Chinese and Western parenting styles. To give the readers a better understanding of how each parenting style works. This article was based on Chua’s personal experiences as a Chinese parent.

Raising children is something the vast majority of the human race will challenge themselves with at some point. How to raise children is a common issue but nonetheless a sensitive and a conscious one. Should you strictly and authoritatively lead your children the way because you love them? Or should you – with the same reason in mind – give them space to follow their own passion and make their own individual choices. The Wall Street Journal publishes the article Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior in which Amy Chua composes a persuasive essay where she argues in favour of an authoritative upbringing. Her comment on the issue is characterised by a provocative language and a creates a contrast between the so-called

At first, the daughter was to become a Chinese version of Shirley Temple. When that didn’t work, her mother told her that she would be attending piano lessons.

Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School who wrote a memoir named Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, believes that parenting style should be strict parenting is the key to successful child-rearing. In addition, she believes that hardened child-rearing approach with the methods of close monitoring and behavioral restrictions. Also, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior, Chua wrote that parents should override their children preferences such things as hobbies and academic performance. Moreover, she thinks the vast majority of the Chinese mothers said that they believe their children can be the best students and that academic achievement reflects successful parenting, and that if children did not excel at school then there was a problem and parents were not doing their job. According to Chua, through close monitoring and disciplines, children will be able to

Neither one has been proven to be more successful than the other. Chinese mothers are much more harsh on their children than Western mothers. Chinese parents focus more on academics and Western parents focus more on extracurricular activities like sports. The author tells us information about both Western and Chinese parents. Most of her statements were valid, just a couple were unreliable. The way the Chinese mothers raise their children is not agreeable. The way Western mothers raise their children seems more

There are many different types of parents with diverse parenting styles in the world. Some are efficient in their ways, while others struggle to wonder why their child did not turn out to be everything they hoped. The controversial topic of whether the parent knows what is best for their child hangs over the reader’s head in Amy Chua’s article.

Parenting styles differ from generations, as well as, from different countries across the world. When two different cultures collide, that leaves parents in a limbo in trying to decide what parenting technique would be the most beneficial for future offspring. Amy Chua, a Yale Law School graduate of Chinese descent, wrote a story about the details of her and her husbands’ choice in how to parent their children. The book is entitled “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” which she proclaims that “Chinese parents are better at raising children than westerners”. At creation of this book, Chua has received an enormous amount of feedback, mostly negative. However, the article “Amy Chua is a Wimp” written by author David Brooks, offers a different take on Chuas’ book. Which leaves everyone wondering what really is the best way to set up the next generation to reach their highest potential.

Chua states that the Chinese parenting process is the best. Even if this is true, nowadays the Chinese parenting style

Kim claims that even though Chua uses the phrase “tiger mother” loosely, it does not mean that the majority of Chinese American parents are tiger parents. For instance, Kim “demonstrates that tiger parenting is not a common parenting profile in a sample of 444 Chinese American families” (Kim). Kim also mentions in her paper an eight- year long study on Chinese American families that live in northern California, and have collected information from them. What Kim learned from her study and stated, was that most of the parents turned out to be “supportive” and “essay going”, yet only a few parents the smallest percentage within this study turned out to be using the “harsh” parenting style. Since most of the parents in the study were found using a supportive method, Kim mentions that the parenting style has changed.

Chinese mothers being superior and any mother claiming that their way of parenting will always be biased. Every mother is going to think that their way of parenting is the best way. Especially parents that create a prodigy. It could be the parenting or the child was just born smart. Either way, that parent is going to claim they did something better than another parent, even though there is no way to prove it. There are too many factors that play into this topic to prove which parenting method is the most superior.

One day, Amy Chua decided to write an essay called, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.” Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School. Chua is a Chinese woman with two daughters. In the essay, Chua compared the differences between Chinese and Western parenting styles. There are different ways of parenting being used everywhere; the four main parenting styles include, Authoritarian, Authoritative, Permissive, and Uninvolved. In the essay Chua made it clear that Western and Chinese parenting styles differ. I tend to agree, as well as disagree with the examples and statements Chua used to compare the way they differ. I believe Chua did an amazing job contrasting Chinese and Western parenting styles.

Is it true that Chinese parenting methods create more successful children? In Chua’s article she discusses how she believes a child’s success is dependent upon the parental success. She reminisces

Shau puts a large amount of focus on the assumption that all “Western” parents are the same as each other. This logical fallacy, hasty generalization, is used throughout the excerpt to emphasize the idea that one style of parenting, the “Chinese” style of parenting, is superior to most of the world. She only shows these two sides of parenting, this making her argument debatable and controversial. She also does not define who is included in the “Western” parents category or what they consist of. This leaves the audience to believe that all other parents fail or do not parent their children successfully.