Analysis Of Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother By Amy Chua

“How do I raise my children to get into Princeton?”, or “How do I raise successful kids”. These are the questions that most parents ask and seek to know the answer. It may very well depend on how parents handle their children. Some methods give free will and individual decisions on their children while others enforce rigorous and restrictive disciplines. It is up to the parents on which method they choose. Parents have the task of making her children well mannered and successful academically. Amy Chua author of “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, talks about raising successful kids by Chinese parenting. In addition, she criticizes how white parents handle their children, which seems weak and ineffective when handling their children. Looking …show more content…
She views western parenting as weak. While western parents may consider making their children play the piano for thirty minutes, Chinese parents make their children play the piano for 3 hours. Chinese parents believe that seeing their children being successful academically reflects good parenting and vice versa. Even though the child may not like what they are doing, the Chinese parents will keep forcing them because they understand that once they become good at it they are going to have fun doing it. Chinese parents can call their children names which is forbidden for western parents to do. She stated the three major difference between Chinese parenting and western parenting. First western parents feel anxious about their child’s self-esteem and always tell them how good they are, but for Chinese parents, they already assume that their child is strong. Second Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything because the parents have gave them life and raised them. Thirdly, Chinese parents believe they know what is best for their children so they decide everything for them. Western parents give their children the free will to decide as an individual and positive reinforcement. For Chinese parents, they prepare their kids for the future by giving them strength and resistance but letting them know their capabilities the hard …show more content…
I agree with what she stated because it is true. I use to hate mathematic because it was hard for me.
I told my mom I don’t want to be an engineer; it involves too much mathematics. My mom would yell at me for getting bad grades. Then she sends me to two separate tutors just for mathematics and I started getting good grades. After that moment mathematic became my favorite subject at school. It is important to understand that children tend to give up easily and parents should give an extra push to fill the skill necessary to be good at something their children are weak in. I think Chinese parenting supports that idea. “calling her garbage in English when she acted extremely disrespectfully toward