the answers you are looking for. At least according to Amy Chua‚ who despite living in the United States has her strict parenting directly from her roots in China. A form where the hard work invested in school is rewarded with more. Where kids have no saying cause mummy knows best or where a social life is not allowed. She got the results‚ but is that really the right way? “Why Chinese mothers are superior” was an article written by Amu Chua and brought in the Wall street journal in 2011. The article
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raising their own children. Parents have to figure out the right passage through their traditions and values on to their children; it can either be in a conservative‚ liberal‚ or anything in between. In her essay‚ “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” Amy Chua explains why her strict disciplining methods are better than anybody else’s. She compares the way Western parents and Chinese mothers teach and parent in two completely different ways‚ and describe the indifferences‚ “Even when Western parents think
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successful career path requires discipline which can come from various national backgrounds. Discipline creates a label of parenting‚ by either being critiqued or accepted by others. One parent in particular‚ Amy Chua‚ makes her own label as a strict parent. In Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior by Amy Chua‚ the main focus is to show how Chinese parenting leads to stereotypically successful kids. A critic Victor Sherman assesses that “Chua’s premise that Chinese mothers raise ‘stereotypically successful’ children
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book “Chinese Tiger Moms” by Amy Chua. It is a very controversial book‚ where Amy Chua explains how she raised her children “the Chinese way” in America. It’s about a mom who raises her children and afterwards become the Tiger mom. Amy Chua’s children were not allowed to watch TV or play Computer games. They were also not allowed to have play dates or sleepovers. They also had to play violin or Piano. If Amy Chua’s children said “they could not do something”‚ Amy Chua command‚ them to do it until
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In reading “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” by Amy Chua‚ I was surprised how Chua shared in detail about her life journey as a parent and raising two children. This is a book about Amy Chua’s experiences in raising her two daughters‚ Sophia and Luisa (Lulu)‚ in what she believes is the “Chinese mother” style of parenting. She is quick to point out in the first chapter‚ entitled “The Chinese Mother‚” that she uses the term “loosely” as it would be ridiculous to try to assume that every mother from
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Amy Chua and her daughter shows a caring relationship while the hostile and hateful tone in Amy Tan’s excerpt shows a poor relationship with a hateful past. In Amy Chua’s excerpt‚ “The Violin”‚ her relationship with her daughter is seen through irony‚ the annoyed tone‚ and diction. Amy Chua ironically encourages her daughter while she plays the violin. In attempt to reinforce the relaxed movement that violin playing requires‚ Chua screams‚ creating the opposite of a relaxed environment. Chua cares
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Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior B “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”‚ is an article written by the 48-year-old lawyer and mother Amy Chua. The article is published in The Wall Street Journal on January 8th in 2011. In the article Amy Chua focuses on how the western parents up bring their children versus how the Chinese parents up bring their children. The receivers of the article are the western parents because she wants them to lean from the Chinese parents. Though the whole article
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The term “tiger mother” was coined by Amy Chua in 2011 with the release of her memoir‚ The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. She refers to herself as a tiger mother because she was born into the year of the tiger in Chinese zodiac. Tiger people are “powerful‚ authoritative‚ and magnetic‚” (Kolbert‚ newyorker.com) Chua says‚ all qualities that show through in her parenting style. Before beginning this research project‚ I knew little of the subject of tiger moms. I thought of them stereotypically‚
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impose cognitive demands that blow away any intense tutoring session or a class at Yale.” He criticizes Chua for not recognizing the value of working in groups and developing social skills. This is a clear difference to Amy Chua’s argument‚ which affirms intensive practice and being the best at certain areas that can be mastered such as piano‚ math‚ violin‚ etc. will achieve
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countries. The result of this kind of upbringing is a highly debated subject‚ where there is a very negative attitude towards the modern Western way of raising a child. This attitude is coming from the Chinese parents living in the Western countries. Amy Chua is one of those parents. She has written an article about the differences between Western parenting and Chinese parenting called‚ “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.” She believes in a strict upbringing where TV and play dates are not part of the
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