Why Chinese Mothers are Superior

   I think this article portrays the difference in parenting model of Western and Chinese parents really true. In Chinese culture, parents and schools only focus on children’s academic performance rather than extracurricular activities. When schools end, we directly go to cram school so that we are capable of competing with others, thus making both parents and teachers proud. Also, parents would try to let children to cram for all subjects, which is just like what the article mentions: Chinese parents would sacrifice everything for their children’s future. In contrast, Western culture’s teaching method varies greatly from that of Chinese. Western parents want their children to have as many extracurricular activities, to join as many clubs as possible. Parents simply want their kids to enjoy the fun social life rather than always studying like nerds. In addition, Western parents would use more encouraging language when seeing their children don’t perform that well academically because they’re afraid of hurting children’s self-esteem. Unlike Western parents, Chinese parents tend to use insulting, harsh language to try to motivate their children to excel to a better level or achieve what they expect of their children to do. However, I don’t really agree with this kind of method because I think this would only cause drawback.