Tiger Mom’ Scolds American Parents, Shakes Things Up

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | January 22,2011 | Suzanne Venker

[Rhonda Robinson]

f you haven’t heard of Amy Chua by now, you’ve been living under a rock. Chua is the author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which is currently ranked #5 on Amazon, thanks to the enormous amount of media coverage her Wall Street Journal article generated.

I weighed in on the debate both in my last NewsReal post (where I point out the pitfalls of Chua’s parenting style, not philosophy), as well as in the New York Post. I also spoke with Ms. Chua, who was so happy to read my Post article, entitled ‘Why America needs tiger mom,’ that she sent it to her whole family. “They love it,” she said.

I can understand why they would, what with all the negative hoopla surrounding Chua’s book. Amy Chua’s book is about her personal journey as a mother — the lengthy subtitle makes this clear — though in the process she explains how the Chinese parent differently than the way we do here in the West.

One of the points she makes is that American parents (and teachers, for that matter) aren’t authoritative but wishy-washy and are overly concerned with children’s self-esteem. They churn out entitled kids who haven’t the slightest idea of what it means to work hard – really, really hard. For this, Chua has received death threats.

[GeronL]

SHe sounds like a really ood mom to me.

[ottbmare]

Until I read about Amy Chua, I never realized that my brown-haired, blue-eyed parents were actually Chinese in disguise. And I thank God for them.

[Mandingo Conservative]

But will the kids come out to be like autonomous without a soul and no sense of love, and no personality. I know many urban Asians like this. However, American kids are an intellectual disgrace.

[Tax-chick]

I am officially so tired of Amy I could spit. Betcha anything she voted for Zerobama.

[NautiNurse]

Tiger Mom (Left)

[MsLady]

Tough love, it works great. You don’t do your kids any favor’s by letting them get away with things and being as she would put it, wishy washy.

[Mandingo Conservative]

I betcha the Tiger moms will raise robots that will go over to the Chinese side and act like state side Chicom agents when China starts gaining the upper hand - which is happening as we know it. These new Asian generation kids born here will eventually become loyal to a dominant Asian power. I knew Asian kids in the 1980s who belonged to a pan Asain / Japanese Christian church in NYC and most of them were anti Americans - lots of Tiger moms there.

[Ajnin]

Yeah whatever. When the third worlders become benevolent superpowers that hold most of the world patents and are on the cutting edge of everything then they can’t talk sh*t until then they need to just stfu.

[Ajnin]

“Tiger Mom” could have just as well been named “Raising Autistic Savants”. Sure, the Chinese kids can to tell you what PI is to the thousandth place but they can’t tell you the price of a candy bar.

[PhiloBedo]

Raising just one kid can’t be that hard. Try 4-8 kids, and home schooling them, like the great American moms.

[Polynikes]

A hundred dollars? (obscure Dustin Hoffman reference) :~)

[Bigg Red]

One of the points she makes is that American parents (and teachers, for that matter) aren’t authoritative but wishy-washy and are overly concerned with children’s self-esteem. They churn out entitled kids who haven’t the slightest idea of what it means to work hard – really, really hard.

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She is right on the money here, sad to say. (Retired teacher, so I have seen so many examples of these youngsters.)

[GeronL]

The kids today have no sense of love and no personality unless you think sex is love and being a ditzy slut is personality.

[pnh102]

A hundred dollars?

What do we get for 10 dollars? :)

[Ajnin]

HAHA, I love that movie!

[GAB-1955]

It's a good technique to learn if you have to pass standardized tests to get into a college where slots are limited. Indians are like that as well. Go to Google Books and type in “Competition Science Vision” and you see a monthly magazine aimed at exam takers.

[knittnmom]

Ood mom? Like this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ood

[higgmeister]

You cannot verbally abuse children without leaving emotional scars. I loved my Dad and lost him way to early, but I still resent having been vehemently called, "you knuckle-headed idiot" every time I was corrected. For example; When I was ten years of age, hoeing a row in the garden, he might suddenly grab the hoe away and say "you knuckle-headed idiot", you have to cut the weed from under the surface of the dirt; while proceeding to aggressively till the ground like a steam shovel. Very "Amy Chua" Type "A" behavior.

I think a large portion of the failures I have encountered through life in a large part is due to my living down to the negative exemplar that my Dad patterned into me.

My Dad told me the day before he passed away that he loved me (more than his own life) and was very proud of me but still I wish he had had more education and understanding.

Here is a link to the original article:
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior By AMY CHUA