Asian Mums are more SUPERIOR?
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Having read the whole book now I find I disagree with many of the Tiger Mother principles.
Through helping to bring up my own four children and my own work with many thousands of students, parents and teachers world-wide, I have discovered that there are a set of key skills that every student needs, whether at school or university, to achieve academic success. The problem with the Tiger Mother philosophy is that it is the parent who is practicing the key learning skills, not the child. Many children these days grow up learning how to achieve by working to someone else’s regime of study rather than their own and in spite of gaining academic success are not learning how to learn for themselves. Through over-supporting our children to achieve goals we may well be making them more helpless and when they need to be able to learn for themselves, when they are in the workforce, striving for financial success, maybe they won’t know how to.
The last thing we need to do for our children, in my opinion, is to motivate them, the most important lesson they need to learn is how to motivate themselves. The same goes for time management, goal setting, planning their study, organising their resources, researching… etc. These are the skills of the life-long learner that all our children need to have to be able to succeed in the world of today and in the world of tomorrow.
It is not the Tiger Mothers who are to blame of course, they simply occur as a response to an exam based schooling system that assesses content knowledge as a measure of a student’s ability to learn. When the emphasis of schooling changes from content to process and when students are assessed as to their competence in learning, rather than their retained knowledge, then we will have a revolution in education. -
Yep! I am waiting for Asian moms to produce children with their awesome methods to invent some fantastic innovation (e.g. the internet which we use without any acknowledgement) or any other great invention that made our world a better place. Yep! Asian mothers, keep produce self centered kids so they can ride on the back of western ideas, drive their BMWs and sit in Starbucks and pat each others’ back on what great Asian mothers do to their kids. Trust me, I have lived in both worlds.
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Yep! I am waiting for Asian moms to produce children with their awesome methods to invent some fantastic innovation (e.g. the internet which we use without a second thought or acknowledging the mothers of these innovative kids) or any other great invention that made our world a better place. Yep! Asian mothers, keep produce self centered kids so they can ride on the back of western ideas, drive their BMWs and sit in Starbucks and pat each others’ back on what great Asian mothers do to their kids. Trust me; I have lived in both worlds. Amy Chua has lost the plot on what a mother is all about.
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SingDadNZ:
Yep! I am waiting for Asian moms to produce children with their awesome methods to invent some fantastic innovation (e.g. the internet which we use without a second thought or acknowledging the mothers of these innovative kids) or any other great invention that made our world a better place. Yep! Asian mothers, keep produce self centered kids so they can ride on the back of western ideas, drive their BMWs and sit in Starbucks and pat each others’ back on what great Asian mothers do to their kids. Trust me; I have lived in both worlds. Amy Chua has lost the plot on what a mother is all about.
Your position is the polar opposite of Amy Chua's, but no less extreme or hyperbolic.
Why don't you check if Bill Gates agrees with you.... -
asian mums more kiasu on academic performance, it happens all over the world. ang mo mums more kiasu on sport and leisure activities.
i recently watched a tv programme, it was about mums sending their daughters to do baby dancing competition, they train 4 hours a day, have to put on over extreme glamorous (in fact awkward looking) adult-like dance suit, and have to travel to all places to join the competition (from Ireland to Scotland to England). Ang mo are just like asian but their interest are on sport, appearance, singing, talents and sport, they wish their kids to be famous, look good and earn big bucks, we asian are more academic and career minded, we expect our children to be lawyer, doctor, engineer, business man, etc. -
this man hated his parents for making him learn piano when young and killed them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs-e5MLNaQU
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