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  3. The following two excerpts are about the so-called Tiger Mom parenting style

The following two excerpts are about the so-called Tiger Mom parenting style

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问题     The following two excerpts are about the so-called Tiger Mom parenting style: being fiercely strict mother or father who pushes their children to work hard at their studies and even restricts their free time so they can continually achieve high grades. From the excerpts, you can find that this practice indeed helps children achieve academic success, but there have also been doubt and criticism.
    Write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should:
    1. summarize the main idea of both excerpts, and then
    2. express your opinion towards this parenting style.
Excerpt 1
    Xiao Baiyou is the latest media sensation in China—a father who not only beat his son and three daughters, but boasts about how he did it. Wolf Dad, as he’s been nicknamed, wrote a book that was originally titled Beat Them into Peking University. It was later changed to the not-quite-as-catchy So, Brothers and Sisters of Peking University.
    The name Wolf Dad reminds people back to Amy Chua, the Chinese-American Tiger Mom whose book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, set off an insane firestorm of controversy when it came out in 2011. The Yale professor based the book on her experiences of raising two daughters with her non-Asian husband. Chua’s methods included banning TV and frivolous social activities such as sleepovers, exacting harsh punishments for weak grades and even shaming her daughters when they failed to live up her high expectations.
    Many parenting experts expressed horror at her seemingly ruthless methodology, but it’s tough to argue with results. Besides attaining near-perfect grades, her eldest daughter Sophia played the classical piano at Carnegie Hall at age 14 and was later accepted into both Harvard and Yale. Sophia’s younger sister Louisa is a violin talent who has never received any grade below an A. And for the Wolf Dad, three out of four of Baiyou’s kids got into China’s most-prestigious Peking University.
Excerpt 2
    Yale professor Amy Chua wrote "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" in 2011, introducing the phrase "Tiger Mom" into popular culture and celebrating her strict parenting style. But in China, the birthplace of tiger parenting, kids whose parents control their lives with cheerless demands for perfection are becoming a problem.
    Researchers from UC Riverside published a new study recently, based on data from nearly 600 middle- and high-school students in Hangzhou, China, debunking the idea that punitive tiger parenting is superior. It finds that less supportive parenting techniques used by some Chinese parents damages self-esteem and complicates school adjustment, while also putting kids at greater risk of depression and problem behaviors. "Our research shows that Tiger Mother type of parenting, specifically controlling, punitive, and less supportive type of parenting is really not working in this sample of Chinese adolescents," said Cixin Wang, an assistant professor at UC Riverside’s Graduate School of Education. "It also shows that it is important for Chinese parents, who tend to be less emotionally expressive and use less praise in parenting, to show their approval, love and support for their children."
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答案             Strict Parents: Dancing with Wolves?
    The recent emergence and promotion of strict and even violent parenting methods, represented typically by Tiger Mom and Wolf Dad, may seem workable to raise a child to be a well-rounded person at the first sight. However, information of a new study published by UC Riverside suggested that strict parenting is harmful to children. With more control, less support as well as harsh punishment, the Tiger Mother style parenting methods can lead to some children’s mental and behavior problems. As far as I can see, such methods are shortsighted and should be avoided since they would only result in loss of childhood happiness and future potentials.
    To start with, the adaptation of inappropriately strict parenting methods deprives children of their childhood happiness. Enacting strict timetables and course plans and enforcing it with violence are simply not the right way to treat children, whose nature is active, carefree and unrestrained. More significantly, as Sigmund Freud has remarked, unhappy and dissatisfying childhood may lead to serious psychological problems.
    Moreover, such parenting methods may result in the loss of future potentials. Tiger Moms and Wolf Dads may pride themselves on securing their children into top universities, but they have ignored the fact that entering into a good university doesn’t necessarily secure success. Their methods work at the moment because they have successfully trained their children into soldiers, if not machines, who are good at listening to and obeying orders. What may be a point of concern is how well can these children cope with different matters when they face a world with no directions, no clear regulations and definitely no orders from their parents. Their innovation and intuition have been limited or even murdered by their parents. Sadly, these are the two most important qualities in a competitive world.
    In conclusion, it’s without doubt an unwise way applied at the expense of children’s childhood happiness as well as future potentials to nurture children with extremely strict and even violent methods.
解析     材料围绕当前备受热议的“虎妈狼爸”的教育方式，从不同的侧面分析这种严厉的育儿方式。
    材料一简单介绍了“狼爸”及“虎妈”严厉的育儿方式及其成果。两者都以打、骂等极端的教育方式来教育儿女。而他们的儿女在学术上均取得了不错的成绩：狼爸四个孩子里有三个进了北大。“虎妈”的两个女儿也是品学兼优。
    材料二引用加州大学河滨分校的一项研究，揭穿(debunking)“惩罚性的育儿方式更好”这一观点的弊端。指出“虎妈式”的育儿方法伴随着控制、惩罚和较少的支持，会伤害孩子的自尊(self-esteem)，不利于孩子适应学校(school adjustment)，孩子陷入抑郁或出现问题行为的风险也更大(depression and problem behaviors)。
    开篇：总结材料内容，指出严格或暴力的教育方式是缺乏远见的，会使小孩丧失童年乐趣并影响其潜能的发展。
    主体：分两方面阐述原因。
    1．严格或暴力的教育方式使孩子没法过上一个快乐的童年。指出孩子的天性是纯真、自由和无忧无虑的。引用弗洛伊德的观点，指出严格或暴力的教育方式会对孩子造成负面的心理影响。
    2．严格或暴力的教育方式影响孩子发展其潜能。孩子长大进入社会后需要的更多是创造力和思维能力，但严格或暴力的教育方式限制了这两方面的发展。
    结尾：重申观点，严格或暴力的教育方式不可取。
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