Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior The article ”Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” focuses on the fact that chinese children are turning out to be so stereotypically successful. Amy Chua points out that there is a big difference between Chinese mothers and Western parents and the way they raise their kids: ”What Chinese parents understands is that nothing is fun until you’re good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences. This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up.” I think this quote makes a good picture of how she thinks of herself as a parent and the Western people as parents. 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.
Video games are not the source of violence but they are consistently blamed; parents need to make sure that their own children are not exposed to media hype that would be considered as violent or damaging to their own kids. The media truly believes they are the scapegoat for anything that goes wrong with today’s society. Today’s parents are naïve and ignorant to the fact that they do not know how to regulate the things their children watch and they cannot control their own kids behavior so they immediately point the blame on someone else. They need to teach their children good morals and show them how playing with guns can change their lives forever. People who own guns need to keep them put away and out of the reach of children.
Angiri Valderrama Page 1 English 101 Date: Dec 2,2012 Sweet or Sour Parents? Why strict parents raised better kids??? Well they do because from an early age the established house rules and standard where they expect their child’s to put family first than any social engagement. Having some sore of list of rules gives a child boundaries such as not yelling, no smoking, no certain kind of clothing, no lying etc. Being a strict parent doesn’t meant that they will be inrespecfull or abuse towards their child, not at all.
Chua listed all the things she doesn’t allow her children to do, and she believes that it is correlated to how successful her children will be. There are many differences between the ways that Chinese mothers and Western mothers raise their kids according to Chua. Chua points out many differences between Chinese mothers and Western mothers; one of those differences is that Chinese mothers spend ten times longer working with their kids’ academic activities in contrast to Western mothers who prefer to spend more time working with their kids on sport activities than academics. In contrast, Western mothers believe that academic success should not be something that their children stress about. According to Chua there are three differences that cause the Chinese mothers to be “superior.” First, Chinese parents don’t care as much about their kid’s self-esteem as Western mothers do.
Michael Brunswick Martin W130 April 17, 20 Final Copy: CC Comparative Critique of “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” by Amy Chua “Mother Inferior” by Hanna Rosin: Tiger Mom vs. Tiger Mailroom” by Patrick Goldstein Amy Chua has introduced a unique way of parenting through her article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” in contrast to western practices. In response to her article, the authors Hanna Rosin and Patrick Goldstein have responded with a different point of view concerning the practice of methods used to educate individuals. As they present their arguments, we will better understand each writer’s position on the matter of education and their stance on how it is implemented in their articles but more importantly, how each perspective will ultimately affect a child’s view on the value of parenting practices concerning education. Patrick Goldstein has taken the stance of the ability to bypass the basic need of the pursuit of knowledge to further one’s career. The example of hard work or ingenuity would prevail in the overall scheme of things and using examples of individuals that have become successful with inventions or self-motivation versus ardent instruction, Goldstein’s stance on education is secondary to talent and the ability to form relationships that could possibly advance one’s professional status is more important than self-discipline through education.
Female Infanticide in China Throughout Chinese history families have always valued males over females. Males could help harvest the fields, bring in a dowry, and carry down the surname to future generations. This has led to a major problem in present-day China: Female infanticide. Female infanticide, caused by many factors such as abortion and the One-Child Policy in China, will lead to a significant gender imbalance, a shortage of wives, and a premature senior citizen class unless acted upon by the government. Female infanticide became more prevalent in the 1900’s.
A parent must intervene and project priorities and goals to the child. She restricts her children’s activities like attending sleepovers, watching TV, and playing games. Furthermore, she forces her children to do activities she deems more important, such as playing the piano or violin and receiving top grades. She views a child’s success as a parental success. When a child lacks self-discipline to push themselves, parents must intervene.
Essay; “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” The article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” by Amy Chua posted in The Wall Street Journal; January 8, 2011 is an educational philosophy of Chinese mothers and Western parenting. Amy Chua, a Chinese mother of two daughters, gives her opinion of how children should be pushed into working hard, to achieve, and be the best. “Nothing is fun until you’re good at it” – this is Amy Chua technique and opinion on how to motivate her children, to ensure that they achieves to the maximum of their abilities. But the dilemma lies, when the question of educational philosophy contrast to the western worlds. Some studies show that Chinese parents spend about 10 times as long as Western parents on academic activities with their children on a daily basis.
Why Chinese Mothers are Superior There are numerous different ways to raise your child, and the “Western” parents often wonder how the Chinese can get so successful kids and in this article Amy Chua, who is a professor at Yale Law School and author of “Day of Empire” and "World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability." explains how the difference in the Chinese and Western methods of raising your child. When I write Chinese- and Western parents it’s in a very loose way, just like Amy Chua writes in the article. Amy Chua has two girls, Louisa and Sophia, they live in New Haven. She comes with examples throughout the book on how she raised her two girls.
The ways of the people of China are shifting as the years pass. With Confucius in mind the women used to be submissive, amiable and quiet while the father was the strict head of the household. Today both parents are usually bringing in an income and instead of being beaten or scolded the children are taught how to internalize how any bad behavior has impacted others. It is a changing world and even though some of China’s culture is changing, much of it still remains the same. The education system of China is state run/ supplied and mandatory to all children of any gender, nationality or race.