The Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother

In the Chinese society, harsh and stern parenting styles are commonplace. Parents believe that authoritarian parenting style is effective in boosting children’s academic performances. Parents who practise authoritarianism set higher standards and tend to control children through shaming and punishing (Dewar ¶33). When children receive poor grades, parents use blunt vocabulary in order to humiliate their children because they believe that children’s morale

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.

Children must be allowed to grow and mature at their own natural pace. The old saying ‘kids must be kids’ is based on this basic need. Dr. Sigel of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey says “Denying, or at least not recognizing, the child’s active outreaching curiosity has negative consequences.” (ProQuest, New York Times, pg. 2). When hothousing a child occurs parents run the risk of the children having what is known as achievement anxiety. This is when a child “come(s) to believe they are valued for what they memorize or produce or achieve”. (ProQuest, New York Times, pg. 2). It appears that there is more evidence that supports the belief that ‘mother knows best’. Meaning, children belong in the care of their mothers, at home, where they can be allowed to play, daydream, and explore their environments.

In the article, “Adapted From Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” Amy Chua, the author, gave some very valid points about how Western children and Chinese children are raised very diversely. Chinese parents are more strict and Western parents are more laid back. Most of the authors points that she made were backed up with statics so they were reliable and valid. There were just a few she didn't back up it was just her opinion. The statements about how the Chinese mothers raise their children are not agreeable or realistic. In all the authors article was valid and had some great points.

Parenting is not one of the easiest jobs in the world to have; you either are responsible enough to parent or you're not responsible enough.You have to be able to raise a child from birth and teach he/she all the necessary tools to succeed in life. As said in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Work, “Parenting is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood” (245). All parents will raise their children in different ways, whether they are very strict or they’re lenient, others can be easy going and strict depending on the situation and the way they group up will shape them into who they become as adults as shown in The Glass Castle with Jeannette Walls and her parents.

It’s true that different parents have distinct parenting styles. Each child must be disparate from another due to cultural background and upbringing. Three major parenting styles that have been around are tiger, helicopter, and free range parenting. In tiger parenting, parents are strict, while in free range it is just the opposite, parents let loose and let their children be who they are and allow them to take risks. The article “I am a helicopter parent, and I don’t apologize” by Elizabeth Fairfield Strokes is an epitome of helicopter parenting and what goes on in a mind of helicopter parent. Helicopter parenting refers to "a style of parents who are over focused on their children," says Carolyn Daitch, Ph.D., director of the Center for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders near Detroit and author of Anxiety Disorders: The Go-To Guide. "They typically take too much responsibility

To conclude, Chua’s infamous “Tiger Mom” parenting method continues to spark debate and discontent throughout America, and the rest of the world. While Chua was simply expressing her philosophy’s superiority over the Western parenting ways, she undeniably wrong, for the most part.

According to the article, The Authoritative Parenting Style: Warmth, Rationality, and High-Standards, “The authoritative parenting approach is linked with the most successful child outcomes.” One of the major focuses is finding a middle ground between too much freedom, and being too strict. It reflects a balance between two values, freedom and responsibility. The responsibility allows for the child to mature and organize their lives by doing tasks such as studying, getting good grades, just make to make good decisions overall. The freedom allows them to have a mind of their own; to hopefully apply making good decisions in life. It also gives them a chance to experience how the real world is. Authoritarian parenting would disagree with this tactic. There’s a belief that if a child is granted freedom, the child is being set up for failure. They do not see the point of freedom when keeping them to high-standards and strict rules will ensure that failure isn’t an option. While I can understand the point being made, it’s a bad parenting tactic. When a child doesn’t experience any bad, how are they supposed to function in the real world? They need freedom to be able to deal with disappointment or failure when they come across it when

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Parenting is different for everyone, but is any one way really better than the other? Amy Chua, a professor at Yale University, believes that the strict parenting style of Chinese mothers is the way to go. She believes that her strict and often harsh parenting style contributed to the success of her daughters. Chinese parents believe that if their children are successful, it is a reflection of the parents. Hanna Rosin, a contributing editor for the Atlantic, has very different views from Ms. Chua about the correct parenting style. Ms. Rosin believes that the more relaxed, nurturing, and self-led style of Western parenting is the better way to raise children. She believes that placing your children under immense pressure can produce

It goes without saying that parents want the best for their kids. A common misconception is that Asian parents brutishly force their parentally-defined ideas of success onto their children. This misunderstanding is further made salient by Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. A memoir of her life raising two daughters, she writes about how most Chinese mothers are superior through their “tiger mom” parenting style, one that often lacks nurturing and is sometimes even seen as abuse by their western counterparts. This silly stereotype is, of course, unsurprisingly false, for the majority of Chinese parents. In spite of Chua’s widespread ideas, it’s been revealed that some Chinese parents don't fit the “tiger mom” mold, as seen in The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. In Tan’s book, renowned for its accurate depiction of Chinese families, four immigrant mothers struggle with the age, circumstance, and cultural gap of raising their American-born daughters. As the story progresses and intricate conflicts, brought from their traditional Chinese heritage meshing with their American daughters’ modern problems, are handled, it is clear to see these mothers are, indeed, not cruel. They simply yearn and strive to resolve these problems to the best of their ability, and to teach their daughters how to be both successful and content. To achieve these goals, the Joy Luck Club mothers seek to instill into their Americanized children three valuable lessons : the importance of taking action, that family deserves sacrifice, and that they all truly just want what's best for their daughters.

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.

The moment that changed me as an individual was when I read a simple book, a book filled with controversy over the message advocated within it even though it was merely the memoirs of a mother and her family. The book was "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua and it's a fascinating account of how a Chinese mother raised her two daughters under a strict, authoritarian tradition. Her parenting style was incredibly important for me when I felt like I had no agency in my life, even though I did. It wasn't until my junior year that I read the book and it opened my eyes to a new, matured me that was hardworking, determined, and willing to accept my limitations.

The ultimate goal for young children is to learn about others and to interact with other children. With Tiger Parenting, this aspect fails with the children. Tiger Parents refuse their children the opportunity to have sleepovers or playdates. Children of Tiger Parents are often forced to play the piano or violin and can not receive a grade below an A (Chua 261). Activities like these prevent the children from focusing on any kind of social activities.This is just letting the kids fail so they won’t have many friends. Amy Chua wouldn’t let her children attend sleepovers, have a playdate, be in a school play, watch television or choose their own extracurricular activities (Chua 261). However, Chua’s approach isn’t the best approach because it

On January 27, an article was published, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” by the Wall Street Journal. It brought attention and promotes extreme controversy. Chua sparked debates over the differences in parenting styles of American and Chinese heritages. “Chinese Mothers” used in a broad statement and “Western Mothers” used for every other party. Americans began to raise questions. Chua’s article referring to herself as a Tiger mother stands to have both negative comments and some positive.