![]() I know too many kids who have cracked,” Lulu said. ![]() “Assuming every kid can do this is dangerous. Still, they don’t think their mother’s tiger parenting - a term now widely used to describe stereotypically strict parenting methods in Asian families - is for everybody. I can’t go home for thanksgiving’,” Sophia said. “I have come across Harvard students who tell me, ‘My grade wasn’t good enough. The daughters also explain Chua is now a hands-off mother and have met people with much stricter parents. This type of parenting places great stress upon achieving academic and musical results, often to the drastic exclusion of many other facets of life. “If I did poorly in a test, she did not let me lie in bed and wallow,” she said. Amy Chua argues that extremely strict parenting supposedly typical of Asian parents is the way to raise 'successful children' in this excerpt of Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. Lulu admitted she sometimes felt playing up to six hours of violin a day was putting too much stress on her, but she said Chua gave her the pushes she needed. I remember my childhood as happy,” she said. ![]() “Everyone talks about my mother threatening to throw my toys on the fire, but the funny thing is that was not a major memory. Sophia said that while she may have stomped home during school breaks to practise the piano, she was better off for it because she was stoked when her concert recitals improved. When it was over, that was family time and we’d go upstairs and watch movies together.” “Even when there was a lot of screaming, that was work. ![]()
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