'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother' - Aggressive Parenting and the Cult of Excellence

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Jan. 17, 2011

Here's the comment I posted on this disgusting article when I first saw it on EPJ. What amazes me is how there is absolutely no recognition of the unintended consequences of taking such authoritarian abusive actions, all that's looked at is the immediate result, it's Keynesianism for parents.:

This is delusional the idea parents have so much control over their children.

Being a dictator with your kids might produce good little taxpayers but it won't bring them happiness.

God save us from the self-sacrificing do-gooder authoritarians who want to help everyone and don't mind using force to do it.

One of my friend's "chinese mother" turned her kid into the worst basket case I've ever seen in my life. The guy is 28 years old and every time I talk to him he is paranoid about elementary school teachers telling his boss about how he did something wrong in school (when he was 6 yrs old) and blah blah blah, yes he is literally that paranoid. He remembers every mistake he ever made in school and it haunts him constantly to this day because his "chinese mother" scolded him endlessly and the paranoia actually took.

Dictatorship produces slaves and central planning doesn't work.

Just because overbearing American-style paranoid parenting is horrible doesn't mean eastern-style authoritarian parenting is therefor great, both are horrible because they're based in central planning and the assumption the parents know what's best.

This socialist ideology is destroying our society and I'll happily call it pure evil. Other people are not your property to be shaped as you see fit, your children included. - Chris

I do take slight issue with the notion Molyneux touches on which is critical of "copying." (not that he would necessarily disagree) Humans learn everything through copying, you'd never hear someone harangue someone because "you just copied your English diction from someone else!" or "why can't you speak in a more original language?!"

See The Cult of Originality by Nina Paley.

After the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt of Amy Chua's soon-to-be-published book about Chinese parenting, the reaction was swift and vicious, especially among Asian Americans. In "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," Chua, a Yale Law School professor, explains and defends her "Chinese parenting style," which, for her two daughters, included no sleepovers, no playdates, no school plays, no TV, no computer games, no grades less than an A, and many, many, many hours of piano and violin practice... The philosophical view from Freedomain Radio - http://www.freedomainradio.com