Not giving her daughters any choices or ask for their opinion on anything.Calling her daughters “Garbage”, “A disgrace”, “Pathetic”, “Boring”, “Savage”, “Ordinary”….The Tiger Mother book in a somewhat proud tone describes other Chinese Parenting strategies Amy Chua used to “motivate” her children towards success: I found her book to be quite entertaining and thought-provoking.” Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother” describes in detail her extreme, yet well-intentioned parenting “weapons and tactics”: Sophia and Lulu were never allowed to “attend a sleepover, have a play date, watch TV or play computer games, choose their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A…” Her essay titled Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior, which was published in The Wall Street Journal, gained a ton of publicity for her book “ Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother“, and quite a bad rep as “evil” and “abusive”, or simply “greedy for book sales”. In the process, she would also prove the intense, strict, achievement-oriented “Chinese Parenting” model to be rather superior to the “Western Parenting” model, which she addressed as weak and too concerned about children’s happiness and self-esteem, resulting in a “soft, entitled child“ who questions and often defies, authority. Amy Chua, a prestigious Yale Professor of Law and best-selling author had a dream and a goal: to raise her two daughters, Sophia and Louisa (Lulu), to be successful music prodigies.
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