Tiger Parenting as an Example of Asian Parenting Style

Imagine being a child not allowed to go on playdates, sleepovers and do other fun activities.What would one do? Amy Chua, a famous Yale law professor, widely known for her child rearing style. In her works she compared differences on how chinese parenting is different from others, and additionally discussed about her daughters, and how they became successful through tiger parenting. Which caused people to think that tiger parenting is better because it helps to raise successful children. Amy Chua controversial parenting method should not be encouraged because it comes with a lot of psychological problems such as tremendous pressure to self criticized when they don’t live up to the standards.

Tiger parenting can make issues for youngsters which they convey into their adulthood and furthermore, it lays an adverse effect on a child’s developing brain. Firstly, tiger parenting can create enormous pressure on a child’s mind. One of most common examples is of Amy Chua’s daughters Sophia and Lulu, who were not allowed to go on playdates, attend a sleepover, be in a school play, watch TV or play computer games, choose their own extracurricular activities, and get any grade less than an A. If chinese children only study and do nothing else fun of course they will feel compelled. Educator and author of Sharing Your Education Expertise with the World, Dr Jenny Grant Rankin states “A tiger parent sets extremely high goals for his or her child, usually academic, and dries the child relentlessly to achieve these goals” .Chinese parents believe that their children can be the best students, because of elevated expectations from parents children become nervous and are pressurized to perform well because they know their parents will punish them if they don’t, this expands the feeling of anxiety and increases stress levels in a child’s mind. Chinese parents spend multiple times as long as long each day boring exercises with their children. For instance, if a chinese child gets back home with a A or a B or the test, the chinese mother will pant with sickening dread to ask what turned out badly, there would initially be a shouting, hair tearing blast, the crushed chinese mother would then get many practice tests work through them with her kid for whatever length of time that it takes to get the evaluation up to an A. Chinese parents request flawless grades since they accept that their child can get them, which eventually leads to originate immense load on a child’s developing brain. Another motivation behind why chinese kids are put under so much weight since chinese guardians accept that their children owe them everything. There is a reasonable comprehension is that chinese kids ought to spend their lives reimbursing their parents by obeying them and doing right by them. This assumes an indispensable job in constraining kids.Without a doubt tiger parenting is bad for children.

Tiger parenting style pressurizes children as well as to make them suspect incredulous of themselves, in other words, it makes them think overly critical of themselves.This is termed as maladaptive perfectionism. Individuals with maladaptive compulsiveness will in general be extremely self conscious and create negative demeanors if things don’t go as they planned. Significant levels of criticism are connected to raise degrees of depression and discouragement. Over parenting appears to create a sense that one cannot accomplish things socially or in general on one’s own. This typically happens when parents become too nosy or intrusive to their children. Parental inclusion has a significant influence in children turning out to be self critical because parents are always laying the blame on children for not performing up to their desires. A crisp example is of Dr.Su Yeoing Kim, who is a professor of human and family sciences at the University of Texas. She tells that most tiger mothers and fathers with cheat sheets, move to constant studying, and one end to the other exercises before they reach kindergarten. But as opposed to making a good intellect, she states that children are bound to get the possibility that they were never sufficient enough, which can keep going for a considerable amount of time. This issue is that you may continually become ill to your stomach before a test or an introduction since you are worried about the possibility that you won’t satisfy others.

Another example is a paper published in 2014 on college students, its is about college undergrads, who had had a hard time in believing in their own abilities. They were progressively more dependant on others, had poor coping strategies, and did not had delicate aptitudes all through college. “When parents become intrusive in their children lives, it may be a signal that what they do is never good enough.As a result the child may become afraid of making the slightest of mistake and will blame him or herself for not being perfect .Over time such behavior may be detrimental to increases the risk of the child developing symptoms of depression, anxiety, and even sucide in very serious cases” study author Ryan Hong explained. Children are hesitant to commit errors, they are so afraid to make mistakes that they think that if they don’t do something right their parents will criticize them badly. Children go in wretchedness when they consider their past mistakes. Children set high performance standards for themselves and expect to meet that standard everytime they work at anything and to be perfect. Kids doubt if something is done accurately, and are also very worried to satisfy high hopes of parents. Parents are indulged in making kids feel frustrated about their errors. The intrusiveness of parents drives people to go crazy in an attempt to accomplish unrealistic goals, often leading them sorrow and decline. Children may spend some good portion of your days ruled by fear and stress over not meeting your own standards. Children, in a way become excessively hard on themselves. This tendency rises drastically, kids who showed high for expanded degree of self critical has raised levels of mental illness. Children may be trapped in misery, chronic tension, depression and anxiety just to try and be meet those expectations from their parents and be perfect.

Tiger parenting has an adverse outcomes further including low self esteem in children, which is also caused by maladaptive perfectionism. Lower self esteem frequently offers ascend to insecurities. Children suffer low self esteem in the light of the fact that their suppositions are not esteemed by their parents. For example, reprimanding a child’s inborn capacities, personality, and qualities, never adulating or praising the kid, living their child’s lives and arranging their vocations, teaching children that their dreams, objectives, and yearnings are difficult to reach, requesting blind obedience, and assessing a kid’s scholarly limit on GPA. This crushes a child’s self esteem. It makes children feel that they can’t be effective at anything. A child’s confidence is totally shattered in the light dreading parents analysis. When a child gets criticized he thinks of each word with the negligence to the context. This plays a vital part in children to lose self confidence. Authoritarian parents aren’t concerned about their children’s self esteem. They assume strength, not fragility, and subsequently they carry on in an unexpected way. They may likewise become hostile since they will frequently concentrate on the resentment they feel towards their parents and will create externalizing conduct issues sometime in the future focusses. Chinese parents may use punishments rather than discipline, they believe that their kids should keep up with the rules no matter what. Children from authoritarian families may think that it’s hard for them to make friends. They may become mentally sick, and transform into friendless machines.Kids from authoritarian parents are moderately less innovative, less socially dynamic.If children have no friends, they will feel lonely and alone. Children won’t have anybody to examine their inclination or issues with, children will never have have somebody encourage, support, and love you like a friend. This would give more weight to Child’s heart and would make them feel more depressed, discouraged and tensed.Having no friends and being less social can make one feel abandoned and deserted.

Admittedly, some people feel that tiger parenting is a supreme parenting style to raise successful children. In the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” by Amy Chua. In this child rearing memoir, in which Amy Chua talks about the differences between western parents and chinese parents, and how and why chinese parenting is superior, furthermore, Amy Chua also portrays the experience on how she raised her own two daughters into bright human beings. Amy Chua did not let her children to go on playdates or to attend sleepovers because she wanted them to utilize that time and study hard, which led them to get good grades and both of her daughters Sophia and Lulu got admitted in a top ivy league school, harvard university. So looks like tiger parenting paid off well, daughters of Amy Chua turned out to be at the top because of their accomplishments. Amy Chua’s critics predicted that Sophia and Lulu would turn out to be paranoid, and machines that are made to obey orders, but Sophia and Lulu turned out to be polite, modest, thoughtful, and above all of them, super successful. Another example is about Amy Chua’s other daughter Lulu. Lulu was around 7 years old trying to master a piano piece named “The Little White Donkey”. Lulu wasn’t able to do because it was too hard and she finally gave up one day before her performance. Amy then started screaming, she threatened Lulu every way possible but it did not affected Lulu one little bit, then out of the blue, Lulu finally did it.Her hands came together. Slowly and gradually she played it more confidently and faster, and when she performed the “Little White Donkey”, she did it so good that not only Chua but other parents were impressed as well. Chua’s harsh tactics were useful, and Lulu emerged as the successful one. Amy Chua’s Sophia said “Everyone remembers my mother threatening to throw my toys on the fire, but the funny thing is that was not a major memory. I remember my childhood as happy”she says. What She really meant by this, is that her childhood was a tough one but she was satisfied with the end result. The strict style of parenting teaches kids how to cope with the consequences of their behavior. People also feel that a child learns values and the ability to make healthy decisions. Tiger parenting also plays a huge part in academic success because their parents want them to do better, and set high standards and want them to meet their standards, children because of this they excel at school. Tiger parenting may come with harsh methods but it can make one an exceptionally good performer.

While Amy Chua parenting method did work for her daughters, studies have demonstrated that tiger parenting can be powerful for asian and asian american students but not for americans. One study by Dr Markus, which was based on asian american students who were asked to think about their mothers following a failure to solve a problem. These students have showed higher level of motivation than when they thought about themselves” it does not mean that it will work for everyone because other children are different from each other, other children are sensitive in a different way , whereas chinese kids are more strong to endure such a painful parenting, and also other parents are not like Amy Chua. Chua’s parents treated her the same way she treated her daughters which gave her a clear illustration of what she needed to do and had more experience in this kind of parenting.

In conclusion, Chua’s method has become a globally recognized method but it should not be adopted by others. Despite her daughters are successful they might have problems that no one knows about and there might be some issues they are not comfortable sharing. Tiger parenting should not be motivated since it accompanies a great deal of problems which includes, intense strain, children self condemning themselves, which at last influences their self esteem, and confidence, lastly due to tiger child rearing, children may turn out to be less resourceful, and  

Works Cited

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