Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mom Summary

Good parenting skills can go a long way in a child’s life. Different cultures believe different methods are efficient when raising their children. In “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” an excerpt from “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law and a Chinese mother herself, states and argues why Chinese mothers are superior and the most effective when raising their children to be successful by utilizing personal anecdotes.
Chua opens her article by attempting to relate to the reader by wondering and asking the stereotypical question everyone has when it comes to Chinese individuals, “How are they all so successful?” She states that she knows the answer because she is a Chinese mother herself. She continues by listing things that her daughters, Louisa and Sophia, as well as

She utilizes a survey’s results to support the argument that Chinese mothers believe that their children can be the best at something and that for something to be fun, one must be good at it first. She later states that Chinese parents can get away with things that Western parents cannot such as calling their children names which would be considered offensive to the Western parents. She argues that by doing this, it makes the children feel bad and not want to do what they did wrong again. Chua supports this claim by including a personal anecdote in which she shares with the readers a memory in which her dad called her ‘garbage’ after disappointing him and how bad it made her feel, not because she was called an offensive name but rather because she wanted to make sure she never disappoint her father again. She then continues to elaborate on the idea that children can do well on anything if they are pushed into doing so. To provide evidence for this, Chua uses another personal anecdote in which she pushed her youngest daughter, Lulu, to learn a complicated piano piece. She explains how difficult it was for her