The book has been published in China and is called “Being an American mom”. No kidding. Actually, I’ve seen in China a lot of QQB style inefficiency. No wonder if it’s normal for a mother to make her 5yo repeat the same mistake while playing piano for long hours while she would get a class next day where a professional would show her how to play, and solve the problem in 5 minutes. There they work and work, for long hours, but it would never occur to them that if they stopped for 5 minutes and reflected a bit, they might get an idea how to do the same in 5 minutes. It’s very Chinese to do something erroneously, then redo with the same mistake, then again redo with the same mistake until they are exhausted.
China for president.
At end, I don’t think this is something that’s going to stop, it should only increase as world is becoming more and more grade wh0re. Afterall, getting As is much much more easier then fighting on streets with bad grades, as world gets more unforgiving about people’s mistakes, parents are going to get tougher on kids for making mistakes. Don’t know what kind of society we are heading into, but it’s definitely becoming the one where doing mistakes is close to crime, 50 years ago what mattered was what you learned for mistakes, now what matters is much clearer is your record. One thing which should be noted is that, it’s the modern parents who are becoming brutal day by day as they modernise, it’s not something that’s fading, it’s something that’s gaining traction… i.e. turning kids into robots! It’s not just US or chinese, it’s the same things I’m seeing around me too, more modern and educated the parents are more they are unforgiving for mistakes. I used to pity on one of my friends, his parents were senior executives in fortune 500 companies, and they used to pressure him so much for grades that, even we were afraid he might just go insane one day… (they used to cut his support on Bs, he had to live on bread and cheese for months on bad grades)… BUT, the dude got in Harvard… although the dude still craves a lot for the life we lived in college, it’s really hard to decide weather his parents were correct or wrong!
Bernanke, Your friend would probably get in Harvard anyways as he’s got good genes and opportunities. However health damage (bread and cheese for months???) and emotional damage is probably very deep. My first thought: demanding only excellent grades is not parenting, but disguising lack of parenting. My second thought: I heard that inequality grows as educated and successful people increasingly marry each other and give birth to talented children, who are born to be well educated and successful. That’s better breeding than “power marrying power”, “money marrying money”, or “money marrying beauty”. If this is a “genes inequality”, that’s a deeper inequality than social one.
Watch Amy Chua on the Colbert report. Totally backtracked from the book.
I didn’t find the Colbert report, but I found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC3JTycmo8o&feature=youtube_gdata_player
What a sick woman, I feel sorry for her to be so tyrannical and abusive to her own children she must be unhappy.
Valores Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bernanke, > Your friend would probably get in Harvard anyways > as he’s got good genes and opportunities. However > health damage (bread and cheese for months???) and > emotional damage is probably very deep. > My first thought: demanding only excellent grades > is not parenting, but disguising lack of > parenting. > My second thought: I heard that inequality grows > as educated and successful people increasingly > marry each other and give birth to talented > children, who are born to be well educated and > successful. That’s better breeding than “power > marrying power”, “money marrying money”, or “money > marrying beauty”. If this is a “genes inequality”, > that’s a deeper inequality than social one. Yes you are right, in such situations people develop low self esteem because they think their achievement is not theirs… this is actually their admission, they feel pretty low when their parents takes credit of all their success, specially in front of their friends, with time they also start to believe the same thing. Every year people commit suicide in my college, and nearly all of them are high graders, pretty disturbing!
And about the inequality, really what can we do about it, I really don’t think anyone is smarter or dumber than anyone else, it’s just the upbringing and situation which makes all the difference. Is it good or bad?, I really don’t know!
I’m a fan of Japanese mothers. That’s not a reflection in any way of the types of videos I have seen.
MILF Hunters…