Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior

This article is about "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior". Some Westerns wonder how Chinese parents raise such successful children. That´s tells Chua Amy about "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior". There are something rules, when you are a Chinese Child. You must to be the best in every subject except PE and drama. When a child comes home with an A-minus on a test, a Western parents will most likely praise the child. The Chinese mother will just ask what went wrong. But when they comes home with a B on the test, some Western parents will still praise the praise the child. If a Chinese child comes home with a B, they will be punished them with hundreds of practice test and work through them with her child for as long as long as it takes to get the grade up to an A. Chinese children must have perfect grades. If they do not get them, so the children have not worked hard to follow the Chinese parents. That´s they always punish and shame the child. The Chinese parent believes that their child will be strong enough to take the shaming and to improve from it.

Mrs. Chua make this text interesting, because she uses a provocative style of writing. Some Western will react positively or some will react negatively. But she wants to tell the message, there are many different ways of upbringing one´s child. That´s says Amy Chua, why the children with a certain kind of upbringing can become more successful. She starts for example to tell about some things her daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do - but because there are rules to their children, can she reflected upon the reason why Chinese parents can get away with their way of parenting. She has observed that Western parents are very concerned with their child’s psyche, something that Chinese Parents don’t care much about. That’s why Chinese Parents can get away with speaking their mind and expressing their disapproval, while Westerns consider a great deal about what they should say to their children when they are disappointed in them.
What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you are 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´s crucial to override their preferences. For example Chua is helping her daughter with a very hard piano piece, but after one week the daughter learned it. Chua motivates the daughter to stop being lazy. "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".
The child should be pushed to the very limit. This can for example mean that Chua forces them to they can´t meet up with friends or watch TV. She also pushes her children to be straight A students. She claims this is so that they will gain self-confidence and happiness. Along with these descriptions of the ”typical Chinese up-bringing” she expresses much criticism towards the American parents and their lazy attitude towards their children.
It may well be that Chua's way is much strife and hard. But it is a great way to get a teenager to believe in their own abilities. When there is support of the parents, then it will always give that extra gear. As Chua says himself, so does the method actually works.
Today we also see the Chinese in the top of the world, when it comes to gymnastics, karate or other creative disciplines. It's all due to hard work, and parents' way to deal with it. But we also see much crime around today. This is often because there is no support from parents. Children feel everything does not matter if your parents still do not say anything. They just think, that they can do what they want. It is a big problem, because the children are the new generation. So it is very important, that they helped with the problems.
Amy Chua´s upbringing of her children will only benefit her children in the longer term. They have many opportunities for a good education. When they get a job, they will always be targeted. The will not be lazy, but they will be good at many things in relation to other countries, because of their parents upbringing.