I have lived in Asia since I was
born. Though it's not the reason to make me agree with the Asian-style
disciplines, I do think this strict way of bringing up children help me to
build my personality and my behavior. When kids are little, they don't really
distinguish which is right from wrong, don't know what is really good for them,
and choose the things to do because. But parents are adult and much more mature,
they know what will be beneficial and helpful to their kids’ future, so parents
who parent in Asian style force and push kids to do something that whom may not
want to do, unlike the Western parents let kids have their own way.
No children
love to be forced and compelled, and neither did I. Take my experience for example.
When I was six, I was interested in learning playing the piano as my new
talent, and I asked my mother if she could let me learn it. She made me do it but
she also asked me to promise that I wouldn’t give up in the half way, and I
agreed. But the enthusiasm faded so quickly that I wanted to learn something
else due to the needed practicing every day. I was forced to play the piano,
and practiced for 1 hour a day until I was thirteen. At that time, I felt painful
and depressed for being forced to practice, but as I grew up and now look back
on that time, I appreciate my mother’s compelling me to keep practicing playing
the piano, and now I can really take playing the piano as one of my skills and
habits. So, who says that the tiger parenting style isn’t a good parenting way?
