Journal published an essay, titled “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” this past Shabbat. It was written by Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School and the author of a new book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” which will be published on the fortuitous day of 1/11/11.
The essay generated 1,200 online comments in 48 hours. I actually had two pre-publication copies of the book, and can tell you that Professor Chua’s points are that strict mothering raises outstanding children.
Her book tells how her children must only score “A”s in school, may not have sleepovers, playdates, or act in a school play. The must be the first in their class in all subjects except for gym and drama, and they may only play piano and violin. While other mother’s might think they are strict by making their children practice their instruments 30 minutes a day, Chua expects at least 2 hours from each of her daughters.
Chua, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law, states that Chinese mothers understand that “nothing is fun until you are good at it.” Western parents, on the other hand, allow their children to give up when things get hard.
First in her high school class, Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, and a clerk to a federal judge, Chua writes that Western parents are conflicted about pushing their children; unable to say their children are “lazy or “fat.” A Tiger Mother has no problem saying this bluntly and directly to her womb-fruit. Chua’s parents, who came to America from China in 1961, were horrified when they learned that as a child, in Girl Scouts, Chua was “wasting time” on community service projects. Chua once said to her own daughter, “If the next time’s not PERFECT, I’m going to take all your stuffed animals and burn them!”
AND WHAT ABOUT MODERN SOMALI MOTHERS?
They are the worst, they never know where their kids went, they don't care whether they go to college or drop out of high school, they encourage to be taxi and truck drivers and to get married early.
so why are Somali mothers not strict on their kids?
Are Somali Mothers Losing to The Chinese*?
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Somali kids are dropping off high schools, being killed on the streets, selling drugs, all while Somali mothers are sitting at home watching tv or talking on the phone. Chines, Indians and Jews mothers produce quality kids because they are strict on their kids, and they want them to win and earn straight A. there only discipline is dumping these wayward kids to Somalia.

Somali Mothers in U.S. Want to Send Wayward Sons Home
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5180077

Somali Mothers in U.S. Want to Send Wayward Sons Home
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5180077
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Re: Are Somali Mothers Losing to The Chinese*?
IRONm@N wrote:AND WHAT ABOUT MODERN SOMALI MOTHERS?
They are the worst, they never know where their kids went, they don't care whether they go to college or drop out of high school, they encourage to be taxi and truck drivers and to get married early.
so why are Somali mothers not strict on their kids?


Even at 22 she has to know where I am at all times.

Getting married young isn't an option, and becoming a taxi or truck driver after being raised in the States would give her a Heart attack!

ps: And I was going to be homeless if I didn't go to College or be deported back to Somalia.


Mom lays down the rules and dad enforces it, that's how Somali parents work from my experience.

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A lot of Somali kids have let down their society because their parents have let them down. But alxamdulillah, things are improving. 

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our societies are so different its like comapring alien species to humans
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