1. Give an account of child raising principles as presented in the three texts. Sophia Chua- Ruben Feld is 18 years old. She grew up with a mother who is called “Tigermom”. She tells about her experience of raising her child in text 1 “ Why I love my strict Chinese mom” a newspaper report by Mandy Stadtmiller. It’s about the Tigermom, Amy Chua, who is a very strict mother. She has many strict rules for her daughters, Sophia and Louisa. Both of them had a very limited childhood. Some examples could be, they couldn’t go for a sleepover, have a play date or get grades under A. They should be the best in school, so they spent most of the day doing schoolwork.
Dr. Bryan Caplan has the opposite opinion about this case, which can be seen in text 2, a newspaper article by Kate Loveys:” Let them eat pizza: Parenting guru’s recipe for bringing up children”. He believes each child´s own choices are a part of their progress and development. People with this kind of upbringing can also become very successful in life. Dr. Bryan Caplan also thinks children should live a controversial life where they are able to be free and do what they like such as watching television.
In text number 3 “Summerhill – a radical approach to child rearing”, by A.S Neil, he has the same point as text 2 which is that it is wrong to do as the tigermom does. He thinks that the child should be able to decide for themselves, which kind of life they want to live, and should not be forced by their parents. A.S Neil has the point that the creativities of the children should be in focus, because if they don’t get the time for themselves they will lose their creativities. 2. How does A.S. Neill engage the reader in text 3? Give examples from the text.
A.S. Neil engaged the reader in text 3, by the way he used his individuality. He was the man who found of the Summerhill School in 1921. He would say it was a good school, which had the point to give the children the freedom they needed to be themselves. His use of individuality was shown in the text by the quote, “We have been called brave, but it did not require courage”and because he was the surface planner, he used a lot of ethos to show us his individuality. In this quote:” All it required was what we had – a complete belief in the child as a good, not an evil, being” this gave us a good impression about this school, which made him exude as a trustful surface planer, and he got this by his use of ethos.
His credibility might get more parents to ponder about this particular school. Neill also got the reader engaged by mention a famous ballet dance, Nijinsky, who wasn´t good at school. He was not very smart and focused in school. He did not pass his exams at school, which are showed indirectly in these lines ““He simply could not learn school subjects – his mind was elsewhere”.
Here Neil showed us that it was not important to be clever in school to become something big in the future. He welcomed all types of people at Summerhill school and Neil also wrote this” What a loss to the world if Nijinsky had really to pass those exams!”. This quote gave us the idea that Nijinsky was very creative but not good in school. These types were also important for the world, otherwise there would only be “robots” everywhere. 3. Taking your starting point in one of the texts, discuss how children should be raised.
I think that most of the people at the age of 18 will say that they have lived their life 110 percent. Same as Sophia Chau said. I think that everyone has their own opinion about how to live their life to the fullest and the best way possible.
The only one who had to be proud is the mother Amy Chau, because her daughter was successfully becoming an adult, and it was because of herself being a good parent.
My personal opinion of raising a child is that the parents have the responsibility to show their children what is right from wrong, and which obstacles the life can bring. I think it is wrong to push children into the parents preferred life. The good parents show the children different kind of paths and then they will let them choose which paths they prefer. I believe this is the right way to bring up a child.
On the other hand we had, A.S Neil who believed that the parents should not push their children too much because it would destroy their self-esteem. They would lose their power to make individual choices.
There were hundreds of various methods of raising a child, which are also one of the things, which make us different from each other. We have all been raised in different ways, with different values, which make us to the person who we are today.
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