Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother, By Amy Tan

In her article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” Amy Chua claims that children raised by Chinese mothers are more successful as they further their lives than children that are raised by Western parents. According to the author, Chinese parents' beliefs enable their kids to succeed because they learn in a strict, direct and strong environment. Chua described a study of 50 Western mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers that resulted in Chinese mothers believing that the academic success of their kids is the direct correlation of their good parenting skills.

Amy Chua on her article, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior, relies on her personal experience with her daughter Louisa, to argue her opinion on how Chinese mother’s parenting techniques could make their children exceed more compared to children of western parents.

The age old question that pops into any new, old, or learning parent is “am I doing this right?” In different cultures, different ideals take light into society and pave the pathway into what they perceive as correct parenting techniques. Certain cultures have certain beliefs in what their kids should do, what they should say, and how they should view their parents. Often times, two different ideals from different cultures collide and accusations begin to be thrown of whom is the bad parent. One culture’s ideals could potentially brainwash a person into believing everything they do is right and everything less is essentially incompetent. In “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, author Amy Chua demonstrates her parenting techniques that resemble the Chinese culture and contrasts it to the Western culture, further arguing the point of her perception of appropriate parenting characteristics.

The article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” is an excerpt of Amy Chua’s book, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which was published in the Wall Street Journal on January 8, 2011. In this article, Chua argues that Chinese parents raise their kids better compare to Western parents. Their extremely strict parental techniques result in their kid’s academic accomplishments and success. Chua’s strict parental method puts too much pressure on kids and it takes away their freedom to express themselves, therefore, Chua’s parenting approach is completely wrong. Kids need their parents to be loving and supportive of their choices, rather than being critical and controlling. Amy Chua is a Lawyer and author. Currently, she is

While Amy Chua and her life as a Tiger Mom is a wonderful insight to Chinese mothers and parenting, it is not shocking that it garners controversy and negativity. Amy Chua makes the statement “Chinese parents assume strength in their child, not fragility,” which itself seems a powerful statement on how a parent sees the potential within. The feeling of being encouraging is completely lost when in full context, it is actually a statement to support insulting or shaming a young child. In Amy Chua’s article, “Tiger Mom” sounds like a parenting style to envy, a strong parent unrelenting to a child accepting defeat. While being a strong parent is agreeable, a parent should see the potential in a child, and encourage striving towards great accomplishments

Amy Chua, author of the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, writes about the differences between Western style parenting and Chinese style parenting. Although Chua acknowledges that Chinese parents are strict and Western parents are less strict, she knows it is a generalization. She outlines the high expectations that Chinese parents have for their children. She compares the statistics about strictness in the eyes of Western and Chinese parents. Chua says that Chinese parents get away with things that Western parents can’t. She also expresses that she does things to her children that her parents did to her. She describes Chinese parents as straight up and honest. She describes Western parents as people that care too much

“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” In “the Battle Hymn Of the Tiger Mother” , a professor at the Yale Law school that goes by the name Amy Chua brought up various ways that Chinese parents differ from Westerners. Her main point was showing how Chinese parents raise such successful children. CHua is mainly pointing out the better in Chinese culture and how the culture is way more effective on their children. Some people may think she's robbing her children of their childhood , but others may argue that she's not considering that they might be raising their children to be successful as well. Amy describes in detail how Chinese parents have more strict values that carry on with their children from a young age.

In her novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan tells of the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers, their hopes, their dreams and the way each of their daughters feel about their mother's lives.  Mother-daughter relationships are the basis for the entire story.  Tan shows the hardships each mother experiences as a child and young adult, and how they all want better lives for their daughters.  She shows the struggles between the mothers and the daughters;  these struggles result from many different things, from the cultural gap, to dreams and goals that may have been set too high.  Each daughter knows her mother means well, but this does not make the battles any

Amy Chua, an American lawyer and the author of, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”, she explains the differences between Chinese and Western parenting styles and the outcomes of these two mind-sets. She claims that Chinese parents raise their child with very strict rules so later in life they can be successful. On the flip side, Western parenting styles are more towards on the effect of their child’s feelings so they don’t hurt their self-esteem or confidence. The reason why Chinese children are so intelligent is ultimately because of their parenting style. In Chua’s essay, she gives her own personal stories and examples from her life that reflect on stereotype.

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a bestseller in America recently, has made the author, Amy Chua, a center of public attention. As a second-generation of Chinese-American, her concepts of strict Chinese parenting and academic success have given rise to current controversies and issues at home and abroad. This leaves people wonder what the differences between Chinese immigrant parenting and American family education are. Therefore, it is necessary for us to take a fresh look at family education from the perspective of cross-culture.

In “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”, Amy Chua argues that Chinese mothers are superior to Western mothers by their ability to understand what is best for their children and push them to achieve their best. Many question the techniques that Chinese mothers use to raise their children, but it has been proven to work when wishing to raise a successful child. Some activities that Chua has never let her daughters partake in include, “going to sleepovers, joining the school play, and even watching TV”. These regulations are key in the upbringing of their children, and the guaranteed success that the parents strive for.

A parent’s goal is to give their children all the best in life, encouraging them to excel in everything they do, but what happens when that parent goes above and beyond, and not in a positive socially excepting way. The difference between Chinese mothers and Western civilization “moms” is pitch black night and day. All a Chinese mother has left to do to raise their children is a battery pack inserted in the child’s back, given the way some Asian people in today’s society are

Every parent wants to be proud of their children, to see them succeed in school, music, sports or whatever path they may choose. The professor and the author Amy Chua wrote the essay “Why Chinese mothers are superior”, where she tries to compare western parents to Chinese mothers and their different methods of raising children. Plenty of the people reading this essay may get the wrong idea and misunderstand, when Amy Chua tries to present Western parents as bad parents who don’t know how to raise successful children. This is not her intension with the essay. Amy Chua emphasizes in her article that Chinese parents are good and capable at raising stereotypically successful children. (p. 1 l. 11). The

On January 8, 2011, the Wall Street Journal published an article by Amy Chua called “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.” In this article Chua argues that Chinese parents are more successful than Western parents when it comes to academics and musical talent. In addition, she discusses three differences between the two parental mindsets. First, western parents worry too much about their children’s self-esteem. Second, Chinese parents believe their children owe them everything because they brought them in this world. Third, Chinese parents believe they know what is best for their children. Even though their mindsets are different, Chua believes that all decent parents want to do what is best for their children. (Chua) From a Westerners perspective, the Chinese’s harsh parenting methods increases academic success and self-esteem; however, their methods damage social skills.

After reading the battle hymn of the Tiger mother by Amy Chua in which she explains the difference between traditional Chinese parenting and that of most Western parents. The could be said that Chinese parents raise their children to be math whizzes or musical prodigies and that Western parents raise their children with the kids feelings in mind, being less strict and wearing about the self-esteem and confidence of the child. In my opinion all parents have different opinions on how best to raise their children, and everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. My particular opinion goes against that of Amy Chua’s parenting style in her book she states the things her children were not allowed to do such as go to sleep over, play sports, watch TV or play computer games, according to Ms. Chua if her children were not two years ahead in math of everyone else in the class they were failing. I personally feel that even though children raised in a strict Tiger mom home do excel academically, but in so doing I feel that by not being allowed to participate in some extra curricular activities such as sports or drama or even to be able to go to a sleepover or have a play date with friends seriously hampers them on the social level.