One woman, with a view agreed upon by many others, is Amy Chua, a professor at the prestigious law school of Yale University. In Amy Chua’s “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” an excerpt from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Chua explains Chinese parenting and how it is effective in her life. She claims that by breaking down a child and pushing them to their full potential, the child will, in turn, be confident and incredibly successful. Chua also makes it seem like Western parenting is far too relaxed
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior 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
others and some are quite questionable. In “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”, Amy Chua discusses the effectiveness of her parenting style. This is an excerpt from Amy Chua’s book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. According to Behrens and Rosen, “the title “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” was written by the editors of the [Wall Street] Journal, not by Chua, most likely in an attempt (a successful one) to attract attention and encourage controversy” (261). Chua is a professor at Yale Law School (Behrens
methods of how learning develops in children. The two authors show different ways that parents approach encouraging their children’s potential and ability to achieve success. In Amy Chua’s essay “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” she writes a memoir of how she raised her two daughters following her interpretation of the Chinese culture. She limited her daughter’s extracurricular activities and forced them to perfect every subject in school in order to be successful academically even though her method
society how each person has their own way of doing things. Amy Chua writes an excerpt called “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” on her way parenting her two daughters following the chinese culture. She explains how western parents are much more lenient than chinese parents with their children and education. Chua gives examples of how she raised her daughter Lulu and Sophia leading them to success. She makes comparisons between western and chinese parents throughout the essay and concludes that both type
difference between the Western and Chinese mothers. It’s clearly that it’s because of their cultures, that they have dissimilar ways to raise children. One of the discussable topics of how to raise children is to see the differences between the Chinese and Western way, which Amy Chua writes about in an article in The Wall Street Journal. The article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” is published in the newspaper The Wall Street Journal on January 8th 2011. Amy Chua writes about the recent topics,
each person to have a different view of things. Amy Chua’s essay “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” she describes her way of parenting her two daughters following Chinese values about education. She explains how Western parents are much more lenient than Chinese parents with their children and education. Chua gives examples of how she raised her daughter Lulu and Sophia which lead them to achieve success. She makes comparisons between Western and Chinese parenting styles throughout the essay and concludes
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior by Amy Chua talks about how she brings up her children and how the way she brought them up have affected her family. The way Chinese parents raise their children and Western parents raise their children is very different. In the first paragraph of the article, it is stated that, “A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids.” (Chua, 2011, para. 1). Amy Chua also sees herself as a “Tiger Mother”. Chinese mothers are not just
It is no hidden secret that many Chinese parents reap the bragging rights of well-educated, career driven and disciplined descendants, which is an important factor in today's society; however, such parenting can lead teens to experience psychological effects such as depression and ultimately suicide. Regardless of concerned critics, Amy Chua remains positive on the result of tiger parenting. She believes that this parenting enables her children to be successful and she expects nothing but "the best"
Amy Chua argues that extremely strict parenting supposedly typical of Asian parents is the way to raise "successful children" in this excerpt of “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.” This type of parenting places great stress upon achieving academic and musical results, often to the drastic exclusion of many other facets of life. She also is heavily critical of the “Western” style of parenting, critiquing aspects that do not correlate with her typical ways of teaching and guidance. In her article