Annotated Bibliography

1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959104576081873998873948.html

Parenting style is the most important factor that will effect the child life for the rest of his/her life. I made researches about some people responses to Amy Chau article. Few people agrees to her way, but the majority disagrees. In the first URL article, all 17 different nationality people have disagreed on Amy Chua's parenting style. And they all almost agree that there a time when each child has to decide whether to be ordinary in life or to be something more. Parents help you see that you can be extraordinary. I agree with this idea.

　

2. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/18/the-chinese-mom-backlash.html

The second URL article is about a 39-years-old Chinese women, has twin 8-year-old sons, and she disagrees on Amy Chua's style. She says "Many young Chinese lament there is no Bill Gates of China. Professors are embarrassed that no Chinese living on the mainland are Nobel laureates—except for dissident Liu Xiaobo, last year's Peace Prize winner, who happens to be in jail. And the most cutting-edge scientific institutions are research centers run by Western-educated administrators wooing Chinese-born scientists back from the West, where they had relocated in order to enjoy the more rewarding research environment abroad. If they had the money and the clout and the personal connections to do so, Chinese moms would want to send their kids to Harvard (as several top-level Chinese leaders have done). In other words, the key to success is seen as a hybrid of East and West—at least when viewed from the lair of the Tiger Moms." I totally agree and support her Idea.

　

3. http://www.quora.com/Parenting/Is-Amy-Chua-right-when-she-explains-Why-Chinese-Mothers-Are-Superior-in-an-op-ed-in-the-Wall-Street-Journal

The third URL article is about a Chinese women, has four sisters, and raised in America with a Chinese parenting style. She said "My big sister was what I used to jealously call "every Asian parent's wet dream come true" (excuse the crassness, but it really does sum up the resentment I used to feel towards her). She got straight As. Skipped 5th grade. Perfect SAT score. Varsity swim team. Student council. Advanced level piano. Harvard early admission. An international post with the Boston Consulting Group in Hong Kong before returning to the U.S. for her Harvard MBA. Six figure salary. Oracle. Peoplesoft. Got engaged to a PhD. Bought a home. Got married.
Her life summed up in one paragraph above.
Her death summed up in one paragraph below.
Committed suicide a month after her wedding at the age of 30 after hiding her depression for 2 years. She ran a plastic tube from the tailpipe of her car into the window. Sat there and died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the garage of her new home in San Francisco. Her husband found her after coming home from work. A post-it note stuck on the dashboard as her suicide note saying sorry and that she loved everyone." I think that sometimes in the way of Amy Chau's parenting, children will go through deep depression after the stress they had in their life.

　

4. http://www.littlepim.com/amy-chua-tiger-mom/

In the forth URL article is about a mother with one child. She says "At the end of the day, every parent has to choose a style of education and child rearing that works best for his or her family. These decisions are undoubtedly culturally influenced, but whatever we choose, the only certainty is that when our kids get older, they’ll turn around and tell us we should have done it differently!" I somehow agree with her opinion but its not necessary that every child will go to their parent and say ''you should have done it differently.'' Because I myself wont go to my parents and say such things. My parent raised me in a perfect way.