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THS Tiger Parenting (Opposition)

Info Slide: Tiger Parent is a term which refers to a strict or demanding parent who
pushes their child to be successful.
While it's ultimately nice to have parents around to stand as your pillar through life, there's a fine
line between them guiding their children with the choices they make and having to make those
choices for them, and tiger parenting crosses that line. Well tell you why in the constructive, but
before that a few responses: *insert responses here*
From your LO, well discuss two things:
Argument # 1: Parents Role and how it affects the childs establishment of identity
Lets remember that the role of the parent must never be to control the child, but rather to guide
the child. Sure, the parents can make certain decisions that the child cannot rationally make at
the moment, especially pertaining to environments which the child should engage on in order to
grow; the parents can determine the academic institution that the child should participate in
according to which one they believe is most conducive to the child growth, but what the child
learns from that environment and how s/he makes use of what s/he has learned from the same
is a choice thats still ultimately the childs. In conclusion, the parents cannot own and control
the child, but should rather just be pillars that will help them build who they are.
Lets take a look at what tiger parenting does, right? Tiger Parents, which are often authoritarian
in nature, leech into each and every aspect of their childrens lives. Examples of acts exhibiting
tiger parenting often involve parents making the essential life choices for their children, like
choosing the occupation their children are to have, choosing the course they are take, etc., and
expect them to do well with it because this is what society thinks is successful; therefore, this is
where theyll be better off. While the intention of not wanting your children to end up in the trash
is nice, this kind of parenting disallows the child from building his own version of what it is like to
live a happy and meaningful life; therefore, ripping off his right to self-identification. They then
limit the childs choices by coercing them to take only ones that will help make society think they
are successful,s, preventing them from actually getting to live out their actual lives.
Argument # 2: The effect of Tiger Parenting on Children
We already talked about how tiger parenting strips the child of Now, well analyze the effects of
this kind of parenting in two levels:
1. Effect on the child
Just imagine having somebody make you do something you do not entirely like.
Regardless of their age, the effect is the same for these children. Since they find no
passion for the things that their parents believe is good for them, its easier for them to
burn out and give up on these things early on because they have ultimately no interest in
clinging onto these things. This then makes them more vulnerable to their parents
criticisms, allowing them to be regarded as failure for not doing well in the path they
didnt want to take.

Assuming but not conceding that there is a propensity that the child may come to like the
path chosen for him by the parent, this child will never get to attribute the success to
himself and his identity because it was something dictated onto him, disallowing him
from owning that triumph.

Now, lets look into a wider scope of perspective; lets take a look at the narrative it
sends out. They tell you that the only way for you to actually be successful is to be a
doctor, a lawyer, a professor or what other highly regarded occupation there is., to have
a mansion and to have lots and lots of money. The narrative it proliferates is unfair
because its inherently unresponsive to the context that people experience different
circumstances; not everyone has the intellect, money and/or the time to attain each and
every one of these or even barely one. Its a narrative in favor of the elite and its unfair
for those unprivileged children because you always tell them that they always have to
transcend structural barriers in order to be regarded by society as successful.

2. Effect on society
We already talked about how tiger parenting strips the child of his right to determine
what happiness, success and life should look like. Notice that these are not usually
standards of success that the parents made up out of the blue, but rather a set of ideals
that they have formed in conformity to the existing standards that society proliferates.
The harm starts once you notice how linear and discriminatory such standards are,
which weve already discussed.

What constant belief and enforcement of these standards through tiger parenting
therefor does is that it reinforces that narrative and gives it the necessary critical mass to
continue to proliferating the idea that there is singular standard of success and continue
to discriminate on other peoples version of success.

Whats even more harmful is that since children regard their parents as authorities
and/or sources of truth, having those sources of truth set those standards upon them
make it easier for them to adopt the same set of standards and believe that it would also
best to impose it on their own children; therefor, letting the harms above stated transform
into intergenerational dilemmas.

If youre all for deteriorating societal standards of success and happiness and promoting
individually set standards or if you just want the child to be truly happy, side with Opposition.
Thanks.

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