Chinese Parent Amy Chua Talks Extreme Discipline and Parenting Regrets

I cannot agree more with what lily53196 said. Many of the American students are entitled and not as motivated (my own children included). That is why Chinese American students on average do better than their peers. When I studied at MIT, I saw extremely self disciplined American students. I also saw extremely creative Asian students too. So don't generalize based on limited personal experience or stereotype. One thing the eastern parenting does excel is the good work ethics, which many of our students lack.

By the way, it is very inappropriate to make derogatory comments.

China has a literacy rate of 1/10 of one percent?? According to wikipedia, China's literacy rate is 93.3%.

"Vinsmom99 said...

Jocie, I could not have put it better myself. The Chinese children do well in school (not better) but they cannot think for themselves or make decisions. In fact, there are more than a billion Chinese with only about 1/10 of one percent who are literate. "

Only 0.1% of the Chinese are literate? Are you serious? Or are you just bad in math, like the typical American? Do you even know what literacy means? It means the ability to read and write. And here is a link from the CIA that says 91.6% of the Chinese population above the age of 15 can read. Now pull more stats out of your ***, por favor!!!

Hmm, it seems linking is not allowed. Oh, well, just Google "China Literacy CIA", and then click on the first link.

Is this why you can't spell aneurysm properly?

Let's hear if for the spelling police. (Pthhhp.)

Let's start with you Bill. In the context of your sentence the word should be countries (plural of country) not country's (which means belonging to a country). Then "What does work". should simply have been written What does work? No quotation marks are necessary but the question mark is needed.

Really? Don't you think you're (you are, in case you want to slam me as well) being a little rough on Bill? He wasn't claiming to be the answer; he was ASKING what the answer is. Does his spelling, punctuation, and grammar have to be proper to post a question on a post? Seriously, Vinsmom...LIGHTEN UP!

Vinsmom - Maybe you are lost. This is a discussion post, not a grammar test!

What will work is when parents stand up and know where their kids are, expect excellence in school, and stop fixing all of their kids problems for them.
However; if you start having kids while still in high school you will usually not be able to get more than a high school diploma. And will consequently be unable to adequately provide for the child(ren) you created without a committed father to financially/ emotionally support all of you. Therefore the emotional apathy sits in and voila, in pops into my classroom a student who hasn't been informed that his/her life can be better than the parents chose for them, and has zero self motivation to funtion. And then I'm criticized for not fixing a problem in a 9 month time period that the parents allowed to create over the last 15 years.

Bill, keeping our kids in church Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings has worked for us. Values learned from there has carried over in home, in school and in every day life. Nothing fancy just do whats right and everything works. Daughter was Valdictorian last year without any pressure from us.

Bill was pointing out the poor results of American education....therefore, Vinsmom99's reply was totally correct, by pointing out that Bill's reply was a perfect example of Bill's argument!! LOL! Time for a glass of wine.....

Your points were great and true. The people responding about the spelling and punctuation are choosing to ignore the real problem.

Shellfish:
Where did you get your study from that so many Asians commit suicide? Did you know that Asians are the smartist people except, the Caucasians do not agree because they feel it is a racist statement.

You would be surprised at the number of kids in the U.S. who commit suicide or wind up with severe psychological problems because of parental expectations. I live near a suburb that has many wealthy people who expect their children to get into top universities. There is probalby 1 or 2 suicides a year, and the psych. ward at the local hospital sees kids who simply stop coping, because they are living up to parents' expectations.

there is no alcoholism in US? Where is there an Asian serial killer? Shut your pie hole. People in US don't commit suicide? Asians don't eat their own food? They are too busy getting you your order of four chicken wings with french fries that you go into their restaurant for! when is chicken wings and fries considered chinese food?!

I think the white kids commit suicide because they have people telling them not to have expectations and others who do have expectations... They are confused more.. as if being a teenager isn't confusing enough!