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Annotated Bibliography

Tiger Mom or Soccer Mom

Jacqueline Chan Professor Malcolm Campbell English 1103 10-18-12

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Annotated Bibliography Lim, Louisa. "And You Thought The Tiger Mom Was Tough." National Public Radio. 13 2011: n. page. Web. 17 Oct. 2012. <http://www.npr.org/2011/12/14/143659027/and-youthought-the-tiger-mother-was-tough>. This article offers a second, more extreme story of Chinese parenting. Xiao Baiyou, also known as the Wolf Dad, challenged Amy Chuas seemingly super strict style by offering the story of how he raised three out of his four children to become students of the most prestigious school in China, Peking University. Xiao gives himself the title of emperor of the family. He uses physical violence and verbal assault in order to coerce his children to obey the thousands of specific rules he has written. If one of his children sleep in the wrong position of even pick up their food with their chopsticks the wrong way, all of children are hit with the wooden end of a feather duster on the legs or on the palms of their hands. Even through all of this, Xiao still sees himself as a wonderful father and regards his parenting styles as one that works. This article was posted on the website of the national Public Radio which shows credibility and can be trusted as a viable source. This article was written in order to offer an even more extreme view of Chinese parenting. It provides insight into the world of strict Chinese parenting and how the cultural differences could provide educational as well as entertaining prose. This article proves that Amy Chua is not the only parent who utilizes extreme methods to teach their children. It validates the strict Chinese mentality towards detailed rules and meticulous upbringings.

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Szalavitz, Maia. "Time Magazine." Time Magazine. (2011): n. page. Web. 17 Oct. 2012. <http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/21/the-tiger-nanny-the-missing-link-in-theparenting-debate/>. Instead of arguing with Amy Chuas methods of parenting style, the author provides a new piece of the puzzle that has previously seldom been discussed. Amy Chua spends most of her book discussing the hardships of being the strict parent. In addition to constantly slaving over her childrens work, she is also a professor at Yale University. This author discusses how she manages to do all of this and write a book: a nanny. It provides insight into many families that have two working parents who entrust the upbringing of their children to a nanny and how this alters the image of the tiger mom. This article was written for Time Magazine in response to the many arguments and debates that surrounded Amy Chuas book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. It explains how a Yale law professor had enough time to juggle full time teaching, writing a memoir, and meticulously raising her two daughters. The use of a nanny or childcare is common in many households and adds an extra variable in the equation of parenting. Szalavitz brings another point to the table. She attributes the success and failure of the Chua children to more than simply the mothers efforts. Nannies and daycare also play a pivotal role in the upbringing of children and their successes in life. This article will be useful in discussing errors in the one-dimensional analysis of Chinese parenting. Chua, Amy. Amy Chua: Tale of a Tiger Mother. YouTube, YouTube. 12 January 2012. Web. 17 Oct 2012. In this speech to The Commonwealth Club, Amy Chua, the author of Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother, addresses the audience in order to comment on the harsh

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reactions she has received in the past year due to her new book. She retaliates many of the comments made in response to the article in the New York Times by saying that her book was not intended to be a how to guide but as a memoir of her struggle as a strict Chinese mother. As the question and answer portion of the night continues, Chua is asked how why she believes that the new style of American parenting is so wrong and how it can be improved. Chua answers in a very interesting way and says that her emphasis is not solely based on the cultural parenting differences but also the generational differences. This speech and question and answer session occurred at a meeting of the Commonwealth Club where many political leaders and emerging experts are interviewed for specific details of their beliefs. Amy Chua uses this opportunity to address the many controversial questions that shes been asked and to provide insight into what her words truly meant in her book. I can use the information in this video to validate or refute the statements made in other articles that pertain to Chuas book. The rebuttals that Chua makes gives the audience insight into why she wrote the book and her true opinions on parenting and how Western parenting differs from the traditional Chinese style. Tan, Amy. "Mother Tongue." Trans. Array College Culture, Student Success. Debra J. Anderson. 1st edition Pearson Education, Inc., 2008. 8-14. Print. Amy Tan, author of Joy Luck Club, writes an article about how her use of the English language changes depending on her audience. It differs when she speaks to her mother and from when she is speaking to an audience in a professional setting. The main point of her article is to highlight how her childhood that was filled with strict rules alters

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her mentality towards her mother and how her mother faces the world. The language barrier not only limits her mothers connection to the world, it also limited Tans ability to do well in school especially in English and grammar. This article appeared in a compilation of essays in a college textbook. It provides a new point of view on the language barrier of Chinese immigrants. It illuminates the awkward position that first generation Chinese children are put in when their parents ask them to overcome the language barrier for them. Amy Tans point of view on language and the relationship between her and her mother provides a refreshing new standpoint and a contradicting debate to the tiger mom approach. Tan emphasizes the loving relationship and special connection she had with her mother as opposed to the cold and strict viewpoint of the common understanding of the tiger mom. Costigan, Catherine L., and Celine M. Koryzma. "Journal of Counseling Psychology." Journal of Counseling Psychology. 58. (2011): 183-193. Print. Acculturation can be defined as the phenomenon of two different cultures clashing and how families deal with the differing traditions that coincide with each culture. Studies show that more accommodation to one culture is related to better psychological adjustment. This article also comments on the way that acculturation has been viewed for many years: a unidimensional assessment. It has been suggested recently that bidimensional assessments of acculturation can contend with belief that orientation with one culture leads to less orientation in another. It gives scientists a way to qualify why adapting to the American parenting styles is more or less difficult than maintaining

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the strict household. This article also implies that higher orientation to American culture leads to more mental health problems due to the lack of religiosity. This scholarly journal was written by two professors at the University of Victoria and was presented in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, which provides us with evidence that this is a viable source. Costigan and Koryzma provide evidence as to why certain immigrant parents, especially Chinese immigrants, may think differently and how their styles may or may not alter as they spend more time in Western countries such as America or Canada. This article will be useful because it provides statistical data as to how Chinese parents deal with American styles of teaching or even living habits in general. It also looks past the topic of parenting and provides research about other factors of living as a Chinese immigrant in Western culture.