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Tiger parenting is a strictparenting stylethat pushes children to excel academically at all costs.
Specifically, tiger parents tend to micromanage their childrens lives in ensuring they meet their high expectations.
For many East Asian families, education is seen as the gateway to success in improving onessocioeconomic status.
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Higher education is a symbol of status and power.
Examples of Tiger Parenting Methods
Tiger parenting enforces many rules and gives full control to the parent.
There is a power differential between the parent and the child that prevents open and honest conversations.
Respect is a one-way street and there is noreward for positive behavior, only discipline for negative behavior.
What’s Your Parenting Style?
Parenting is stressful and it can be difficult to know whether youre doing a good job.
Its easy to resort to what youre conditioned to.
Tiger parenting doesnt create child prodigies, finds new research.
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