Chinese parenting

Chinese parenting

"Western parents are concerned about their children's psyches," Chua writes. "Chinese parents aren't. They assume strength, not fragility, and as a result they behave very differently.... That's why the solution to substandard performance is always to excoriate, punish, and shame the child. The Chinese parent believes that their child will be strong enough to take the shaming and to improve from it."


"The child may not protest the parents' actions, but that may be because protest isn't permitted. Many Asian cultures teach children not to admit weakness or criticize their parents, Dr. Silverman points out. "So it might be assumed that these kinds of parenting techniques don't impact the child, when it actually does."


"But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't."


Pros and Cons to this but a lot of this is pretty familiar, lol.  I guess this discussed it in a slightly different way than I had understood.  I mean there is a lot more I could say about this, but I don't really feel like writing right now.