Asian Parents Style And Parenting Style

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Moreover Parents’ style and parent’s expectation are also the factor that drive Asian American successful in hight education. Base on Baumrind, Clinical and development psychologist, divide parental style into three styles which are “ Authoritarian (strict and obey), Permissive( spoiling) and Authoritative(supportive) base on “ Parental responsiveness” and “ Parental Demaningness”(Baumrind), and Neglecting style (ignoring) is added on later by Maccoby and Martin. Parent demandingness is the parent’s demand toward the children such as control, discipline,supervision, and responsiveness is the action or feed back the parents interact with their children such as love, warmth,involvement . Asian parents fall to Authoritarian style which is “a highly restrictive style, in which children are expected to maintain …show more content…

However, according to the Huang and Gove’s research categorizes Asian Parenting style in “Ethic Minority style” is presented by Phyllis Heath, a professor in the Department of Human Environment Studies. Heath considers the demandindness in Ethic Minority style as similar to Authoritarian style but responsiveness is high in Ethic Minority parent style( Huang and Gove 391). As a result, Gove and Huang claims that Ethic Minority style, in Asian American families, gives the better result in high education achievement than the other style (Gove&Huang 392). For example of the Authoritarian style, in The Battle Hymm of the tiger Mother by Amy Chua (2011), Amy demands her daughter, LuLu, to play perfect piano in “ the Little White Donkey” . She sits through the night with LuLu and uses all kind of tactics such as yelling, threatening until Lulu gets it right and she does at the end. From Amy’s parent style shows that the perfect piano song is her high demand and she feels that LuLu’s successful is her responsible. At the end, the benefit is on Lulu as she built her own piano

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