parenting

I've been hearing a lot about the self-proclaimed Tiger Mom and today, I finally decided to see what it was all about and take a look back at the Wall Street Journal article that started it all.

'Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior'.

"There are three big differences between the Chinese and Western parental mind-sets. Western parents are concerned about their children's psyches. Chinese parents aren't. Second, Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything. Third, Chinese parents believe that they know what is best for their children and therefore override all of their children's own desires and preferences."

She's just another foreign parent who pushes her kids so that they are more likely to succeed in their futures. Like my mother. Crazy to see half the world up in arms about this. So what her children had to play piano or violin, couldn't participate in school plays, couldn't bring home anything less than an A, couldn't go to sleepovers, and couldn't complain about any of the rules?
Any foreign parented child would probably read this and just smile. Yes it sucked coming up in it but the majority of us are doing well because of it.

Sincerely,
a 4.0 student