Tiger Mother.

This reading opened with the Tiger Mother doing what she does best, opinionating. She believes that a smart child is the best way to show a child has good parents, and if a child isn't the best acidemically then they have bad parents. Apparently when she was young, somone else recieved the "child of the year" award in elementary school and her father felt like she had disgraced him. She also claims that a part of her regrets marrying a caucasian man and not another chinese man, but another part of her is glad because it shows her new american found freedom.  When her parents first moved to America, they moved with almost nothing. Their main focus was to focus on her education. Because of an old saying, the speaker believes that her children will disobey her, because of the changing generations of kids.  The speaker was going to make sure that her child didn't do that, so she made her do classical music, she also made sure that her kids did physical labor. Her husband didn't like that idea, he didn't like the ideal of his kids struggling, and worried about their backs. Also she believes that In china, kids never back talk, but in America it's the norm.

I understand how there's a culture shock between every generation but come on, let the kids be kids. I know that a parent is allowed to raise their kids however they like but this is a little crazy. The kids are more like slaves instead of kids.