Why are Chinese people so abusive to their kids?

Chinese children must spend their lives repaying their parents by obeying them and making them proud." That might be true of the Asian people with a Confucian sensibility, but there is something strikingly self-serving in all of Ms. Chua's efforts with her daughters. read more

SOME of the Chinese are abusive to their kids because they believe that in order for their children to feel the need to improve, they must at first feel inadequate and discontent. This is, of course, in contradiction to what modern neuroscience is telling us. read more