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Child raising
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1) The first texts is about a very strict Chinese mother of her 18-year-old girl. The essay is written by the mother’s 18-year old daughter because her mother published an essay called “Battel Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. This essay got many negative responses from the readers and the daughter explains her childhood for the readers of “The Wall Street Journal”.
In the essay Sofia, the daughter of the Tiger Mother, tells about how her strict mother handled her as a child and “how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids”.
This Chinese mother raised Sophia this way; if Sophia didn’t do her best her mother would say it to her. As an example, Sophia writes in the text that once she gave her mother a birthday card, and how her mother didn’t approve it, because she knew the Sophia hadn’t tried her best.
Sophia had a lot of rules example she couldn’t be with her classmates after school, have playdates in her early childhood, watch TV, play computer games or play any other instruments than piano or violin. Sophia didn’t mind, for her it was to have goals in life and she didn’t care what people thought of her strict Tiger Mother. For her it was the perfect child raising.

In the second texts, a parenting guru tells that he think that children should be allowed to watch more television and eat pizza, he believes that parent try to hard raising there kids. He thinks that the parent should let their kids handle their own life, it will learn the to be there true self.
Dr. Bryan Capel explains that their genes shape kids, so the influents of their parent wouldn’t madder anyway. He supports this argument by telling us about a research on an adopted kid and to twins, which long-term parenting on all three children have no effect of the success on neither of the kids

In the third texts A.S Neill writs about Nijinsky who

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