To make her point clear she uses a lot of pathos and a lot of examples from experiences with herself and her two daughters, Louisa and Sofia. At the beginning when she tells the stories about her daughters trying to fight back you think ’what a terrible mother’, but she uses this feeling to support the view the readers have on the Chinese mothers as being mean to their kids so that afterwards she can tell how it turned out good and therefor the way she raises her kids is the best. Amy Chua has a high ethos because she is a professor at Yale which is a very respected job, and as a parent it makes her more reliable because she tells the reader that her parents treated her the same way that she treats her daughters, and as we can see she has been very successful. Also she uses loghos: ”In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70 % of the Western mothers said either that ”stressing academic success is not good for children” or that ”parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun”. By contrast,
She insists that Chinese children know that their parents think of them highly, and criticize them only because they know their kids can achieve high expectations. Hanna Rosin disagrees commenting that “there is no reason to believe that calling your child 'lazy' or 'stupid' or 'worthless' is a better way to motivate her to be good than some other more gentle but persistent mode” (Rosin). She feels that as a parent her job is not to be a harsh critic but to encourage them. Rosin is not concerned with making her children the best but rather with making her children happy and building them up. She states that even when her children give her lopsided, hastily drawn birthday cards, that she praises them as if they
They would assert that they are doing what any child would want. What child wouldn’t want to be smarter, healthier, and better looking? The parents know what is best for the child, and they simply are trying to start their children off in this world with the best opportunity to have a successful life. The use of reproductive technology would save children from suffering, and reduce the overall cost and emotional strain of looking after a sick child (Bionet par.6 ). Looking after a disease stricken child would become time consuming and exhausting after a while, and all
It was harder for women because lower class women had to leave the inner quarters because they need to feed there family’s. In “A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Women” by Ida Pruitt, it is a first-hand look at the life of a lower class women in the late late-Imperial China. Ning Lao Taitai’s life is described and how as a lower class women and her struggle with Confucian values. Ning pre-married life was much like girls of upper class families. She was able to play with any children, it didn’t matter what gender, until she was thirteen.
While this article is jumps around a lot, and is a little hard to understand, the author has a creative way of getting her point across without being so forward, for example, as she talks about Planned Parenthood, her opinion is very clear, but she does not necessarily say it. The emotional toll of these young girls can be crucial and affect them for the rest of their lives, for example, receiving the “Ms. Fix it badge” might be rewarding at the time, but in the long run the one who receives this what seems to be masculine badge, can be made fun of for it. Girl Scout leaders want to prove to society that girl scouts do more than just “sell cookies”, so they have come up with many more new badges in the late 1990’s to give out to these young girls. These badges can be earned by fixing a leak, changing a tire, or re – caulk a window,
She went through a tremendous struggle-to-success; a boring success that has being leading Amy’s everyday life with her ‘’tiger’’ mom. Her mother estimated that she knew better than anyone; from her humble job and her limited income, she was sure that: ‘’ you could be anything you wanted to be in America’’ (Tan 264), and that her daughter had to be ‘’the best she can be’’(Tan265), a pseudo-genius, in order to fit in, or better: to demark herself from the mere and common so she can attain success. The recipe was to assimilate her daughter with other people and create a competitive aspect in her child’s perspective; Amy had to succumb to her mother trying to extract from her the person she cannot be and to forge from her the type of genius she’s not. At the end, the author managed to define her own meaning of success, and became the person she was meant to be through her uniquely generalized experience: Strangers, in general, when they bring their children overseas, they tend to put pressure on them so they can stand out from the crowd of mere people and break the ceiling glass, the barriers to be the best. However, assimilation is not as simple as it may seem.
Open adoption should be allowed to birthparents wanting to put their child up for adoption. Some people believe it is wrong to have an open adoption because the birth parents will grow attached to their child. This mother gave her child up for adoption and she said, “But moreover, I have the joy and pride of knowing that I gave my beautiful, smart, loving son the best life I could, a stable family with a mommy and daddy, and everything he could ever need” (Annie H 37). By knowing later in life, Annie knew that she made the right choice because she now knows that her child is living a healthy life. If she did not give her son up for adoption, Annie would not fulfill all of her child’s needs and wants in his/her life.
The Tiger is generally looked at as the living symbol of strength and power and generally inspires fear and respect,” Ms. Chua writes in her memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (The Penguin Press, 2011). She proudly relates her own authoritarian upbringing and how she has learnt from the rigid parenting style her parents practiced in her childhood. Secondly, the tiger mother and the western mother differentiate by, mainly, their different ways of teaching their children. In short, the tiger mother rules her children and pressures them in any way in order for them to be good when they grow up. They can scold them and call them names just to motivate their kids to meet up to the parents high expectations.
Absent fathers can be the biggest social problem in the world. Raising children without a father can damage a child's perspective, making it difficult to adopt a masculine world. Fathers are the primary source who showed tough love,discipline, and encouraging success for their child.Due to the Absentee of father's guidance the development of a child is effected emotional, educational, and opportunity wise. I wonder if this pattern from men will ever change? In now days education is a big deal, and absent of fathers interaction effect female interest in academic advancement.
BEING A GOOD PARENT Parenting can be a source of tremendous pleasure over a lifespan.But, it's also a time-consuming and a difficult job for parents. In addition to satisfying their children's basic physical needs, parents can face lots challenges of upbringing such as intellectual, emotional and social development of their offspring. Like every child, every parent is different. However, all good parents share some basic qualities that help their children develop into responsible adults.Parents have eyes only for their children's future and they do everything for them. But doing everything is not enough for being a good parent.To be a good parent,parents have to face with some requirements that you have to follow and apply them if you want to be a good parent for their children.