I Think If You're A 'tiger Parent'

Every Day That You Don't Practice Is A Day You're Getting Worse.

There Are All These New Books Out There Portraying Asian Mothers As Scheming, Callous, Overdriven People Indifferent To Their Kids' True Interests. For Their Part, Many Chinese Secretly Believe That They Care More About Their Children And Are Willing To Sacrifice Much More For Them Than Westerners, Who Seem Perfectly Content To Let Their Children Turn Out Badly. I Think It's A Misunderstanding On Both Sides. All Decent Parents Want To Do What's Best For Their Children. The Chinese Just Have A Totally Different Idea Of How To Do That.

Some Parents Let Their Kids Sleep At Other People's Houses, Where They Drink Alcohol, Watch Tv For Hours And God Knows What Else. But If You Say You Have To Get All A's And Practice The Violin For Two Hours, Then They Consider That Abusive. That Upsets Me.

I Think There Are Many Ways To Raise Great Kids. From What I Can Tell, Ayelet Waldman's Kids Are Interesting, Strong, And Happy, And If That's The Case, That's Good Parenting.

To Be Honest, I Know That A Lot Of Asian Parents Are Secretly Shocked And Horrified By Many Aspects Of Western Parenting.