Chua, Y U NO NICE TO YO DAUGHTERS?

In the article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” by Amy Chua, she talks about Western parents and how they take complete control over their children. Chua talks about how her daughters owe her, and that she can do whatever she wants with them because they are her kids. Also, she has rules for them that they have to follow, if they don’t then they are tortured or get called names by their mom. This quote shows how Chua have threaten her child for disobeying her,

“I rolled up my sleeves and went back to Lulu. I used every weapon and tactic I could think of. We worked right through dinner into the night, and I wouldn't let Lulu get up, not for water, not even to go to the bathroom. The house became a war zone, and I lost my voice yelling, but still there seemed to be only negative progress, and even I began to have doubts.”

The way Chua describes the way she treats her children is horrible. If I was her child I would have run away. Even though she says it was to teach them “tough love”, she should never threaten her daughter the way she did. Chua does not seem to give her daughter a lot of respect and think that what she doing is helping them in life but it is really wrong.

Children should not owe their parents for giving life to them. Children should owe their parents for raising them but when the parents give no respect to the child then the child does not owe anything to them. That child should get up and leave the house and never look back because what the parents are doing to them is unfair.