Well, just ask the millions of Chinese orphans out there out about their mothers (and fathers) who left them in a market or a field or on a train. Or ask the baby girls that get thrown in the river because of their gender.
Yep, chinese parenting is vastly superior.....
Emphasis is the simple difference:
education and social responsibility
versus
video toys and an educational system which most values playing children’s games with various types of balls.
It’s no mystery.
WSJ=BS
If Chinese parenting is so good, why has China been a backwater for centuries?
That kind of rigid, no-fun approach makes very efficient workers, but leaves zero room for creativity. And creativity is the key to wealth creation. I’m all for m ore discipline in parenting, and we could learn SOME things from the Chinese model. But aping it would just create a generation of very efficient kids that were very good and making sterile copies of other people’s work. What’s the last original thing the Chinese created? Hmm?
Just dayum.
Everyone was saying the same things about the Japanese and the Germans until we came in a kicked their sorry asses! Same will be true of the “superior” chinamen.
Sure to get panties in a bunch. Very interesting one-sided article.
Well I don’t think China is all that. Although I loved visiting it during 2004, I don’t think killing children until you have a son and then stop having children was brilliant. In fact, right now they are having big issues with not having enough women for the men.....dah!
She is a nutcase.
I had strict parents and grandparents. She it a wackjob.
Because they don’t watch Oprah?
Why is bigotry acceptable when it’s practiced by some groups and not by others? OK, let’s play: the US has it all over China as measured by infant mortality rate, life expectancy, per-capita income, literacy rate and several other measures (according to the CIA Factbook). Mao Tse Tung had a Chinese mom.
This article is sure to get some panties in a bunch.
With the sunset of the greatest generation, we have become a country full of quitters.
Nonsense! My children have been raised by a strict following of Dr. Spock! All of them are retired. Never worked a day in their lives. Watch TV all day long and into the night. Play video games, have fun.
Me? I’ll work till the day I die keeping them fed, clothed, housed and entertained. It’s the American way.
True story, when our son was 10 we spent a couple months in China (husband was on work assignment and we went along.)
So one day we’re at an outdoor skating rink and a teenage girl comes over and asks if she can practice her English by talking to me. This happened quite often, so I agreed.
At some point, my 10 year old wipes out, big time, on his skates and falls down on the concrete. He looks my way, shows me his skinned up palms and I yell, “You’re okay, just get up.” (typical parental response to falls in our family, LOL.)
The Chinese girl then goes on and on about how a Chinese mother would have rushed out on the rink and checked on her child. She thought it was better the American way (which she assumed was how I reacted) because she thought the Chinese way made kids soft.
I thought about that afterwards and maybe in physical situations she was right, but it is just the opposite in educational scenarios. Many Americans coddle their kids through school, and make excuses for them, or blame the teacher if little Johnny doesn’t do well.
IMO, the lady went a little berserk over the piano piece, LOL, it wouldn’t be worth my energy or nerves to have my kid master a particular piece. Each parent “picks their battles” and a piano piece wouldn’t have been one of mine, but each to his own, I guess.
Excellent article. And notice that the underacheivers in this country have no father and a mother who does not encourage her kids to work hard and get ahead, but instead blames their failure on “Whitey.”
They compare their best against our worst, so natch when you do that, the Chinese come out on top.
First of all, China is not “kicking our ***.”
In fact, the reason China is the recipient of so many insourced jobs is because its cost and standard of living are both so low, and its population so abundant, that companies fall all over themselves trying to get a piece of the slave labour action.
Outside of a couple of made-for-TV cities like Shanghai - which are essentially fancy but useless bling built using Western corporate welfare money - China is just another tin-pot hole waiting for its geriatric, power-obsessed oligarchy to collapse, so that it can have another round of warring states.
Unless there’s a female child in her womb, then Chinese mother’s are murderers.
I read the WSJ article with interest, as there are many chinese families where I live. I appreciate their perfectionist tendencies, and I would like my kids to learn to get some things absolutely correct. But American parenting does have some strengths that Chinese parenting seems to lack. 1.Many Chinese kids in America get a chance to experience faith. They join churches. They learn charity and morality and that every human life has worth. 2. American kids have more time to make life-long friendships, and get into a vast array of hobbies and pastimes. So maybe they don’t all play violin, but they play electric guitar, go fishing, fix cars, bake cookies, care for pets or draw cartoons. 3. Our culture in movies and stories emphasizes that there is more to life than winning a prize or getting a perfect score. We also have a lot of reminders that that late bloomers can triumph, that oddballs come up with great inventions, that people from disadvantaged backgrounds can overcome hardship by their own effort. 4. I’m willing to bet American parents say I’m sorry more often than Chinese ones, when they have messed up.