作者：申畅书
According to the book, Chinese parents seem to be too despotic and very rigid in their ideas. The writer even thinks playing drums leads to drugs! Come on! That's the funniest thing I've ever heard since this year, yes, ironically. Besides, they have higher expections for their children and because of this, they treat the kids in a very strict way. They act as more teachers than parents in a certain way, and it's reported that children whose parent is teacher are most likely to kill themselves. Indeed, no one will want their children to be a automatons or a looser who easily give in to the failure, but it's true that under such a pressure, children's mental health and physical health can't be very good.
Like the curates' eggs, Chinese parents do have their strengths in teaching kids. Most of the Chinese children may focus on study with all their heart and soul and their pure and simple hope is just to get good marks and then be admitted into a top university. And their hard work gives them good qualities like diligence and discipline.
As a locally born and bred Chinese, I considered "Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother" is not completely realisitic, at least for present Chinese families. However, the beginning of this book is quite sparky and sharp. It says, this book is about "a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen- year- old". That's the exactly story of every parents who want to control their children. A Taiwanese TV serial named "Your Child Is Not Really Your Child", which is quoted from Gibran, also reflacts this problem. A child who is under his or her parents' control always becomes an indepent adult, just as a nestling will build its own nest on itself one day. All in all, I 'd like to give Chinese parents a piece of advice sincerely which says: A SAPLING NEEDS SOME SPACE TO GROW!
