Retreat of the ‘tiger mother’

   After her controversial article was published, Chua receives many criticizes via e-mail or comments on the newspaper’s Web site. As this article mentions, Chua is just writing a memoir rather than parenting guide, so I think people shouldn’t judge her so harshly. Every household has different methods of raising children, and some are more kind, some are more demanding on academic achievement. In addition, she is just writing her own story, people really don’t have to be so overreacted. Instead, people should just use the attitude of reading a novel to treat Amy Chua’s book. When Amy Chua said that her real crime is telling the truth, and people are not that honest about their parenting, I feel this is so true. How many parents can say they’re perfect that they have no fight with their children ever? I’ve never heard of and I think it’s impossible for not having any conflict with family members. Although Amy Chua’s parenting method might sometime be too excess, her children are thankful toward the way that Chua uses. As long as her children didn’t result in depression or unhappiness, other people really don’t have the right to say that Amy Chua is a “tiger mother.’