Defining Tiger Parenting
Defining Tiger Parenting in Chinese Americans
Simona Nissan
San José State University
Su Yeong Kim on the article Defining Tiger Parenting in Chinese Americans presents the results of the research about the existence of Tiger Mother in the Chinese Americans society. Amy Chua in her book Tiger Mother argues that her daughters' success derives from the fact that she had used “tiger mothering,” unlike the American parenting that focus of developing and improving children's self-esteem. However, the study found that this type of parenting is no common among the Chinese Americans society. Moreover, there is not relation between “tiger mothering” and superior academic preference. They found that the best development is among kids …show more content…
The positive characters include warmth, inductive reasoning (generalizations), monitoring and democratic. On the other hand the negative characters include hostility (enmity), punitive, psychological control and shaming. Combining the whole eight characteristics creates four main types of parenting profiles: tiger, supportive, harsh, and easygoing. The obvious conclusion from the data is that the supportive parenting is the importance parenting type among the Chinese Americans, since supportive parenting prevents a negative developmental way in young Chinese American. In addition, Chinese American children experience less depressive symptoms (Kim and Ge 2000). Finally, the involvement of the father in the process can cause or increase the optimal development of the Chinese American children.
The research found two main intricacies in the context of Tiger Parenting. First one is the involvement of the parent process. Chua [2011] emphasizes that tiger parenting is the mother’s job; however, the research finds that tiger fathers becomes involve in the Chinese Americans families when the children become more busy with commitments outside the home as independent adults. Second complexity is that existing a number of other aspects beyond the eight dimensions that should be considered such as, the parents set goals or
Simona Nissan
San José State University
Su Yeong Kim on the article Defining Tiger Parenting in Chinese Americans presents the results of the research about the existence of Tiger Mother in the Chinese Americans society. Amy Chua in her book Tiger Mother argues that her daughters' success derives from the fact that she had used “tiger mothering,” unlike the American parenting that focus of developing and improving children's self-esteem. However, the study found that this type of parenting is no common among the Chinese Americans society. Moreover, there is not relation between “tiger mothering” and superior academic preference. They found that the best development is among kids …show more content…
The positive characters include warmth, inductive reasoning (generalizations), monitoring and democratic. On the other hand the negative characters include hostility (enmity), punitive, psychological control and shaming. Combining the whole eight characteristics creates four main types of parenting profiles: tiger, supportive, harsh, and easygoing. The obvious conclusion from the data is that the supportive parenting is the importance parenting type among the Chinese Americans, since supportive parenting prevents a negative developmental way in young Chinese American. In addition, Chinese American children experience less depressive symptoms (Kim and Ge 2000). Finally, the involvement of the father in the process can cause or increase the optimal development of the Chinese American children.
The research found two main intricacies in the context of Tiger Parenting. First one is the involvement of the parent process. Chua [2011] emphasizes that tiger parenting is the mother’s job; however, the research finds that tiger fathers becomes involve in the Chinese Americans families when the children become more busy with commitments outside the home as independent adults. Second complexity is that existing a number of other aspects beyond the eight dimensions that should be considered such as, the parents set goals or