Why Chinese Mother Is Better

The writer of this article “Why Chinese Mother Are Superior” is Amy Chua. She was born in Champaign, Illinois. Her parents were ethnic Chinese from the Philippines who emigrated to the United States. She is a Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School right now. In this article she talks about as a Chinese mother how did she parenting her two daughters and she also discussed the difference of parenting style and family culture between Chinese parents and western parents.

At the beginning of this article, Amy Chua showed some things that she never allows her daughter to do which included “attend a sleepover, have a playdate, be in a school play, complain about not being in a school play, watch TV or play computer games, choose their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, not be the NO.1 student in every subject except gym and drama, play instrument other that the piano or violin, and not play the piano or violin”, but the kids in United States usually allowed to do everything they want to do only except illegal things. That is a huge difference of parenting style between Chinese parents and western parents. Compare with Chinese parents, the Western parents are more respect kid’s feel, and Chinese parental education may confine children’s development, and destroy theirs happiness.

I thought there are several problems that Chinese parents have had. Firstly, just like the former president of United States of America, Nixon said “The task of Chinese education system is to train children into a person who is docile, completely listen to elder generation. In this way, they lose Chinese Darwin and Einstein.” Chinese Chinlren don’t have a lot of right to speak, most

of Chinese children are required to follow to rules which theirs parents give to them. And then, many Chinese children would not allow to do the things which they really interesting in, and most of them would like to do things according to parents’