![]() ![]() ![]() In the book, Chua described how she emphasized her daughters' academic and musical achievement over their happiness and self-esteem, giving them little independence and using shame to motivate and discipline them. ![]() Evidence also suggests that Chinese-American and Chinese parents tend to favor a supportive approach to child-rearing over a strict tiger parenting style. Researchers say tiger parenting - a term used by Yale Law School professor Amy Chua to describe her parenting style in her 2011 memoir "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" - can be harmful to children's well-being and academic success. Strict and emotionally unsupportive "tiger parenting" isn't common among Chinese-American parents and isn't the formula for high-achieving child prodigies, finds research published in a special issue of APA's Asian American Journal of Psychology on "Tiger Parenting, Asian-Heritage Families, and Child/Adolescent Well-Being." ![]()
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