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Are Chinese Mothers Superior?

Labels: Personal Finance/Productivity, Leisure

This article, excerpted from a new book by a Yale Law Prof, compares traditional Chinese parenting styles to those more typical of American-born mothers.  Do the anecdotes have implications in the workplace?  They've engendered more than 15,000 comments in the five days since this incendiary piece first ran!

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  1. Joseph Chan makes this comment

    Saturday, 15 January 2011

    First of all, I am a Chinese parent brought up in Hongkong. I was intrigued by the title of this article and started reading it a bit. I was shocked, horrified, and ashamed by this so called professor's viewpoint. I have never ever met a Chinese parent sharing, believing, and practicing anything close to what was being preached in her article, in my past 52 years living in HK, London, and California. Upon further reading in an ABCNew article http://abcnews.go.com/Health/jewish-author-responds-wsj-chinese-mothering-controversy/story?id=12623592, this would appear to be yet another case of Shirley Sherrod - quoted out of context, intentionally or not. Chinese parents are just like regular parents, some of them might be more wiling to sacrifice their time and their own interest for their kids than others, as the author claimed. That's about the only thing that I would tend to agree with this lady. Joe

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