Amy Chua & Parenting Revisited

The topic of parenting and raising children is important to all of us.  We think that much can be learned about people's ideas and thoughts -- as reflected in the thousands of comments on the Wall Street Journal article by Amy Chua.

Here's an article from Time Magazine.  Excerpt below:

Among those who are decidedly not following Chua's lead are many parents and educators in China. For educated urban Chinese parents, the trend is away from the strict traditional model and toward a more relaxed American style. Chinese authorities, meanwhile, are increasingly dissatisfied with the country's public education system, which has long been based on rote learning and memorization. They are looking to the West for inspiration — not least because they know they must produce more creative and innovative graduates to power the high-end economy they want to develop. The lesson here: depending on where you stand, there may always be an approach to child rearing that looks more appealing than the one you've got.(See TIME's special report on what makes a school great.)

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2043313-5,00.html#ixzz1Gso0mAv6

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WSJ article on Amy Chua's controversial parenting ideas

This article on parenting, called, "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior" has generated a lot of buzz because everyone wants what's best for their children.  We feel that the author, Amy Chua, is trying to sell books -- and is thus being very extreme and controversial -- but because it is generating so much interest, here are some excerpts:

Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games and hours of music practice create happy kids?  And what happens when they fight back? 

A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too.  

  

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html