In the world we live in today there are many parenting styles. Some in which are really strict and require a lot of discipline and structure and others that are more lenient and allow children to be a free spirit, supporting what they may like to do verses a more structured life with very few options on choices in their lives. In this paper I will compare the viewpoints of Amy Chua an author who wrote an article with the viewpoint of “Chinese Mother’s” were superior to Western Mother’s and Hanna Rosin an author of an article arguing the opposing point of Chua’s parenting style with the viewpoint that allowing your keeps freedom and encaging thing that they may like and are good at is the best up bring for a child. First looking at Amy Chua who is a mother of two girls that feels that her strict and structured parenting style is what is going to bread two very successful and well rounded adults. Chua feels that by restricting recreation from her daughters like sleepovers. Play dates, TV, school plays and extracurricular actives that make be unnecessary to the child’s development will be beneficial for the child. Mastery of academics and playing instruments such as the violin and the piano will be more stimulating and beneficial to the child’s development. Chua does agree that at times getting a child to want to commit to such a rigorous schedule can be very hard, and feels that by using tactic such as calling a child names or telling them that they are a descries will make them want to please their parents and in turn commit to the schedule. Chua also admit to threaten the children with withholding their favorite toys or threatening to give them away as a ploy to keep the children at bay, Though these methods may seem harsh to some and often times cruel Chua feels that it is necessary for the Childs development and will not cause any long term psychological effects on the child. When it comes to the traditional “Chinese Mother” Chua feels that they put in more time and effort into their children therefore breading more successful children which often time turn out to be portages’. She also feels that “Western Mothers” are often times too lenient on their child and giving them to much freedom and choices when it comes to their lives. She feels that they put more infancies on less important things such as sport or a school play and force less on the Childs academics and accepts a Childs “best” verses demanding perfection from their children as Chinese Mothers do. Chua explains that Chinese mothers will often time scold a child for bring home a-, saying to the child that they should be number one in their class and demean that they explain why they did not have an A+. Western Mothers would not look at the child but the teacher or the school system as a whole. Now Looking at Hanna Rosin viewpoint on parenting, which she posted after reading the article written by Chua. Rosin who compares herself to the Western Mother feels that the Chines.

1. In the world we live in today there are many parenting
styles. Some in which are really strict and require a lot of
discipline and structure and others that are more lenient and
allow children to be a free spirit, supporting what they may like
to do verses a more structured life with very few options on
choices in their lives. In this paper I will compare the
viewpoints of Amy Chua an author who wrote an article with
the viewpoint of “Chinese Mother’s” were superior to Western
Mother’s and Hanna Rosin an author of an article arguing the
opposing point of Chua’s parenting style with the viewpoint that
allowing your keeps freedom and encaging thing that they may
like and are good at is the best up bring for a child.
First looking at Amy Chua who is a mother of two girls
that feels that her strict and structured parenting style is what is
going to bread two very successful and well rounded adults.
Chua feels that by restricting recreation from her daughters like
sleepovers. Play dates, TV, school plays and extracurricular
actives that make be unnecessary to the child’s development
will be beneficial for the child. Mastery of academics and
playing instruments such as the violin and the piano will be
more stimulating and beneficial to the child’s development.
Chua does agree that at times getting a child to want to commit
to such a rigorous schedule can be very hard, and feels that by
using tactic such as calling a child names or telling them that
they are a descries will make them want to please their parents
and in turn commit to the schedule. Chua also admit to threaten
the children with withholding their favorite toys or threatening
to give them away as a ploy to keep the children at bay, Though
these methods may seem harsh to some and often times cruel
Chua feels that it is necessary for the Childs development and
will not cause any long term psychological effects on the child.
When it comes to the traditional “Chinese Mother” Chua feels
that they put in more time and effort into their children
therefore breading more successful children which often time

2. turn out to be portages’. She also feels that “Western Mothers”
are often times too lenient on their child and giving them to
much freedom and choices when it comes to their lives. She
feels that they put more infancies on less important things such
as sport or a school play and force less on the Childs academics
and accepts a Childs “best” verses demanding perfection from
their children as Chinese Mothers do. Chua explains that
Chinese mothers will often time scold a child for bring home a-,
saying to the child that they should be number one in their class
and demean that they explain why they did not have an A+.
Western Mothers would not look at the child but the teacher or
the school system as a whole.
Now Looking at Hanna Rosin viewpoint on parenting,
which she posted after reading the article written by Chua.
Rosin who compares herself to the Western Mother feels that
the Chinese’s mothering style of parenting is to overbearing and
requires a lot of time and micro managing of the children’s life
and also takes the fun out of being a child. She starts her article
off by giving a loving illustration of her playing in the floor
with her two year old son. She then goes on to say that she
loves the fact that her children attend sleepovers and play date
and wishes that they could attend them more. She even
expressed how proud of her son for getting a small role in his
school play. Rosin feels that the Chinese’s mothering parenting
style requires a lot of attention and time to sit over and drill
your children and though she is not saying that she does not
believe in investing time in her children would be beneficial to
them she just chooses to do in a way that is fun for her children
as well. In the article Rosin went on to explain that while she
agrees that playing an instrument is good for children she
doesn’t feel that it is only limited to the piano or the violin. She
is proud of the fact that her son is a drummer and thought that it
was nonsense for Chua feels that playing the drums leads a
child down a path do drugs. She even brought out the point of
the 16 year old that stabbed her mother to death stating that”
her mothers Chinese’s immigrant parents held her to imposable

3. high slanderers. And she also brought out how Chua admitted
that she is not good at enjoying life and how she tells stories
about herself that make her look beastly. Rosin even was able
to get a first hand example of the effects of the Chinese
parenting with a personal friend who said that she was graceful
to her mother for instilling in her the discipline an structure
made her who she was. She does however not like music and
has not picked up a violin in years and said that music takes her
to a place of loneness, which is most young prodigies.
After taking a separate look at both parenting styles one
thing is evident that both style though different they have
similarities. They both feel that time and effort and investing in
the children’s education is important. I thought it was intrusting
how Rosin even gave Chua credit for being honest about how
she raises her children been when it was not showing her in the
most flattening light. While both authors agree what when it
comes to learning nothing is fun until you become good at it,
Rosin fells that using insults such as calling a child lazy and
stupid instead of positive reinforcement is not a good way to
motivate a child. Chua focused on the importance of mastering
how to play and instrument while Rosin focus on playing an
instrument that the child enjoys playing and finding joy in it.
Rosin also agreed with Chua about Western style parenting feels
that their children are special and entitled but don’t have the
guts or the tools to help their children to accomplish this. Both
parenting styles want whets best for the children and want the
kids to strive for excellence but just use a different approach.
In conclusion, both Chua and Rosin bring up good points
about the style of parenting that they think is better. Both
authors feel right in their opinion and want whets best for their
children. Happiness comes in many different forms and though
either style may not agree with the other style a happy and
healthy child is what they both strive to rise. When becoming
parents we get the wonderful responsibility to choose the path
in which direction we would want our children to go in and even
though ultimately the choice are the children’s with the proper

4. skills they will be over all great kids.