Photo credits: Celestine Chua.
Bernardo Chua decided to do something new back in 2008.
While Amy Chua renders the Tiger's Mother way as‘superior,' most
research suggests otherwise.
I can only imagine what Chua would think of my childhood performance.
Chua describes tiger parents, often
seen in Chinese families, as superior to Western parents.
Ms. Chua asserts total control over every nook and cranny of her daughters' lives.
Amy Chua popularised this name in her 2011 book Battle
Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
Parents who follow Chua may do so because they want their child to be successful.
I haven't read Chua's book so I can't say what else
she's said on the subject.
Chua threatened to burn her daughter's stuffed animals if she failed
to perform the piano piece perfectly!
As readers of my two previous posts know(here and here),
I have criticized and admired Ms. Chua's parenting style, respectively.
Chua banned play dates and sleepovers, tolerated no
grade below an A, and enforced daily music lessons for her two girls.
There are other more personal fears that Ms. Chua exemplifies in the most intense way,
but many parents in America feel to varying degrees as well.
Since Chua's husband is not Asian,
she could obviously encourage her children to improve their admissions chances by concealing their ethnic identity during the application process;
The Chua Mot Cot Pagoda is one
of the oldest religious buildings in Hanoi, a temple built upon a single column in the centre of a small pond.
Chua said in a statement,“Our cooling technology can
be easily tailored for all types of weather conditions, from humid climate in the tropics to arid climate in the deserts.
As long as she is ever-vigilant, Ms. Chua can maintain the illusion that she can ward
off those threats to her daughters' survival and, in doing so, allay her fears.
The Chua Mot Cot Pagoda is one
of the oldest religious buildings in Hanoi and is a temple built upon a single column in the centre of a small lake.
By now you are probably familiar with the WSJ article Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,
where Amy Chua describes a parenting style she calls“Chinese parenting”
and differentiates it from her view of what she calls“Western” parenting.
The 2011 bestseller Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother has become a phenomenon because so many have resonated with, or were shocked at,
what the author Amy Chua described as her childhood: No play dates,
no TV and having to always be No. 1 in everything;