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Not really. My family and their family are quite close, and I personally was a daily acquaintance of the older daughter. While the children did indeed experience enormous amounts of pressure and stress, most of it was from their mother. And furthermore, when they succeeded and did their best in everything they were told to do, their mother was understanding.</p>
<p>In contrast, though, for many other students out there, even when they do their best, their parents are not accepting. I feel as if this is the true “Asian parent” model. Even worse, for those rare, prudent students, especially on this forum, the stress and huge pressure for not failing is on themselves rather than their parents. Through the viewpoint of an unknowledgeable foreign student with no parent to guide their way to success in college, the situation that the tiger children were in would seem like a luxury rather than a burden. They literally had their plan for success laid out for them, and all they had to do was follow it. Instead of being eternally doubtful of themselves and always stressing out for failing, the guaranteed form of success to them was simply following their mother’s wishes. Whereas for those other students, they had to try and fail and then try again, lacking any form of guidance, and blindly trying to find the path first, and then going through all that pressure and stress to achieve it. </p>
<p>So what I’m trying to say is that the Tiger Mom example is really a downplaying of what the true Asian parent model is like. But to those unaware Westerners, as Chua pointedly says, the Tiger Mom story seems like the actual hell on earth for children, although the truth is far from what the book seems to portray. In short, every time I hear an American friend speaking about tiger parents and claiming some sort of association or musing about how dreadful the children’s lives seemed, I usually ask to them to stop speaking about the book, citing my reason as “personal”. Because as far as what I personally know, that novel is really a false depiction of what the true Asian parent situation, or the general foreign student life, is like.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, scores are out in 2 more days! Hopefully, if CollegeBoard decides to release them at midnight, we’ll only need to wait 48 more hours to find out our fate!
That said, I hope you all get the score you got!
As a personal promise, if I do indeed get the score I personally want, I’ll offer to help those who scored lower than I did as much information about scoring better as I possibly can. And that’s a guarantee!</p>
<p>So let’s pray to the God of CollegeBoard that we didn’t screw up! :]</p>