we are at the tail of the tiger year. and before the tiger exits, it has the last roar..... not the from the male kind, rather, the tiger mum that roars the loudest!
this tiger mum was proud of her 'achievement' on her two daughters, she could not help to brag about it in her new book, 'Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother'.
almost two years ago, there's a case of a gal with a tiger dad reported widely over the world news. it was the case of a certain prodigal young girl name "Sufiah Yusof" , who was brought up under strict, regimented and hot-housing type of environment(if not stricter from what Amy describe in her book)championed by her "tiger" dad. Expectedly she aced in her studies and entered Oxford University at the age of thirteen. Things looked rosy for the child and her father until she disappeared and shocked the whole world when she appeared as a high-class call girl.
well ms amy chua will argue that by statistics, most of the kids that are under the tiger mum/dad education style will turn out good, and the kids that turn the other way are in the minority.
fine. but remember we are talking about a person's life here, even if one out of million kids turn bad from the hot-housing scheme is deemed as a failure for the scheme; just like passing a medicine for human consumption, the kid-raising test must be as strict if more stricter than testing a medicine for human consumption.
she may argue, if you use other methods which are not as strict, you cannot guarantee the kids will turn out good as well, and probably the percentage of getting good kids from other methods is less than the tiger-mum method.
fine. so what's the conclusion?
the conclusion is:
there's no one method to bring your kids up that they will turn out to be good. do not put it up to the world that your method is better than the others..... let the parents decide what they want to do with their kids, or not to do with them.
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