2011-05-16, 02:21 AM
I'm not going to look at the details of what you wrote, since I've seen them before. Instead...
Many of you are overgeneralising, with a good number of assumptions. Bringing happiness into the equation makes things even more shaky, because you don't know if they are happy or not, and you don't say whether they are happy or not - they feel for themselves. Yes we know the "pop them the right question and they'll wonder if they are truely happy" but in the societal context, not necessarily so. Would your examples apply to everyone, or just the people in your society? In my society? Yes and no, because [people in my country] are at the interface, though starting to lean on the Western side, but we're still very Asian.
So... are you trying to prove which mindset is correct and/or wrong? Is freedom of choices really always better than a moderate form of "tiger parenting" (I say that because I, as mentioned earlier, do not partake with the more extreme sides of that).
Oh by the way, I realised that "strict parenting" is so subjective.
Hadriel
Many of you are overgeneralising, with a good number of assumptions. Bringing happiness into the equation makes things even more shaky, because you don't know if they are happy or not, and you don't say whether they are happy or not - they feel for themselves. Yes we know the "pop them the right question and they'll wonder if they are truely happy" but in the societal context, not necessarily so. Would your examples apply to everyone, or just the people in your society? In my society? Yes and no, because [people in my country] are at the interface, though starting to lean on the Western side, but we're still very Asian.
So... are you trying to prove which mindset is correct and/or wrong? Is freedom of choices really always better than a moderate form of "tiger parenting" (I say that because I, as mentioned earlier, do not partake with the more extreme sides of that).
Oh by the way, I realised that "strict parenting" is so subjective.
Hadriel