Tiger Parenting Amy Chua

Amy chua biography and theories.

Tiger parenting amy chua. The term tiger mother was coined by yale law school professor amy chua in her 2011 memoir battle hymn of the tiger mother. Tiger mothers 9 parenting principles. Tiger parents push and pressure their children to attaining high levels of academic achievement or success in high status extracurricular activities such as music using authoritarian parenting methods. Chua argues that western style parenting is too diverse too permissive and ultimately american parents do not set high enough expectations of their children.

Tiger parenting is a form of strict or demanding parenting. Ill bet thats all amy chua cares about too. Her famous book battle hymn of the tiger mother is 256 pages but actually her ideas can be summed up in 4 simple words. My eight year longitudinal study kim et al 2013b of chinese american families in northern california collected multi informant data from the mother father and the child for three key developmental periods at four year intervals.

If you actually hear her interviewed or read her whole book instead of angry rants from people who probably never read it themselves youll find that the tiger mother isnt all that different from the rest of us. She didnt design her parenting approach as a springboard to a nationwide book. A largely chinese american concept the term draws parallels to strict parenting styles ostensibly enforced thro. While amy chua is a fairly new voice in the field of parenting her principles seem founded on the well established but rather oldfashioned authoritarian parenting style.