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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
by Amy Chua
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Let me start off by saying that Chinese parenting Amy Chua speaks about is really terrible. It'll eventually leave the children scarred, insecure and completely overworked. Now, I'm not saying Chinese parenting is followed by all of them but if they do, there's nothing more frightening than this. Amy Chua makes us laugh, that's a given but there's something utterly disturbing about her parenting style. She yells, threatens and wages war with her children in order to derive the best grades and to keep them practicing piano and violin. I'm not a parent but I say this with conviction; no child deserves to be subjected to this torture. I do not care if you're trying to derive the best from your kids but the sheer amount of pressure that you put them under is so so wrong.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is about how Chua, a second generation Chinese woman who marries a Jewish man and brings up their two daughters, Lulu and Sophia. Very quickly it becomes abundantly clear that she thinks very highly of the so-called Chinese parenting, constantly comparing it with Western parenting. Her children, although musically gifted are pushed to extremes, making them practice for at least six hours every day! Their vacations are filled with practice sessions, they were denied sleepovers, parties, sports - basically anything that makes childhood fun. Chua puts all this in a manner that seems right but it is so morally wrong. I was overcome with a sense of pity and sadness for the kids when I read about how she controlled their lives with an iron fist. Perhaps this was not what she wanted the readers to experience but I strongly believe that this book backfired tremendously. She has managed to create a strong stereotype about how brutal Chinese parenting is, although that's not the case. If I had a penny for every time she did something unbelievable, I would have been a millionaire by now. Her book is shocking.
Read this for yourself and decide if her style of parenting is truly good or very horrid.
I gave this two stars solely for her writing style.
2/5.
Let me start off by saying that Chinese parenting Amy Chua speaks about is really terrible. It'll eventually leave the children scarred, insecure and completely overworked. Now, I'm not saying Chinese parenting is followed by all of them but if they do, there's nothing more frightening than this. Amy Chua makes us laugh, that's a given but there's something utterly disturbing about her parenting style. She yells, threatens and wages war with her children in order to derive the best grades and to keep them practicing piano and violin. I'm not a parent but I say this with conviction; no child deserves to be subjected to this torture. I do not care if you're trying to derive the best from your kids but the sheer amount of pressure that you put them under is so so wrong.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is about how Chua, a second generation Chinese woman who marries a Jewish man and brings up their two daughters, Lulu and Sophia. Very quickly it becomes abundantly clear that she thinks very highly of the so-called Chinese parenting, constantly comparing it with Western parenting. Her children, although musically gifted are pushed to extremes, making them practice for at least six hours every day! Their vacations are filled with practice sessions, they were denied sleepovers, parties, sports - basically anything that makes childhood fun. Chua puts all this in a manner that seems right but it is so morally wrong. I was overcome with a sense of pity and sadness for the kids when I read about how she controlled their lives with an iron fist. Perhaps this was not what she wanted the readers to experience but I strongly believe that this book backfired tremendously. She has managed to create a strong stereotype about how brutal Chinese parenting is, although that's not the case. If I had a penny for every time she did something unbelievable, I would have been a millionaire by now. Her book is shocking.
Read this for yourself and decide if her style of parenting is truly good or very horrid.
I gave this two stars solely for her writing style.
2/5.