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Tiger Mom Don T Raise Superior Kids Analysis

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Amy Chua’s author of “Adapted Form Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mothers’ stirs up debate. Chua’s compares ‘Chinese parenting’ method to ‘Western parenting’. She uses the term ‘Chinese mother” loosely referring to Korean, Indian, Jamaica, Irish, and Ghanaian parents (pg 305) too. She also states the term ‘Western parents’ loosely since there are several varieties. Chua’s approach to child-rearing is more harmful and threating to a child’s well-being and development. Her methods are harsh and discounts her daughters Sophia and Louisa feelings. This method consist of stressing academic success by all means and shaming to achieve successful adults. There is no child leisure time and the child has no freedom or power to choose their activities. Lastly, her parenting style discourages creativity, interpersonal skills and research shows this tiger mother method is not the best. Chua’s believes “nothing is fun until you are good at it” but Rosin, …show more content…

Ju Yeong Kim an associate professor studying 300 Chinese-American families for a decade published her findings in Asian American Journal Psychology. Chua and her supporters were surprised when finding that the children of tiger mothers had lower grades and emotional difficulties. In the 1980s four parenting styles were categorized these were the authoritarian, permissive, authoritative and negligent. The authoritative parenting style produces more high-achieving young people who tend not to be depressed in white families’ study shows. Researchers think Asian-American parents are the authoritarian parents type but their children outcomes were different then European-Americans kids. Kim expanded the categories into 8 after not seeing one that match her Korean-American upbringing. Coming up with profiles that resemble East-Asian families including one that includes

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