Thesis: Can you raise your kids to succeed!

All parents want their children to be successful, happy, strong and intelligent. What is considered the accepted way to achieve this? Some parents choose to only want their children to be happy, as Hanna Rosin writes in "Mother Inferior.” This article describes western parents as parents that make their children feel like winners regardless of their performance. In "Chinese Mothers are Superior,” Chua says achievement and mastery equals fun and anything less is unacceptable. As parents’ guide their children's growth what is the goal, to teach our children happiness is most important or is it success, mastery or is there a middle ground? In examining the article by Amy Chua she doesn’t let her children attend sleepovers or playdates. She believes children will not choose their extracurricular activities and practice in that activate will be hours long daily. Also, they will be the number one student in their class. As we turn to Hanna Roslyn’s article her children attend sleepovers and playdates. They have free play and they do different activities. For instance her children were involved in theatre and when practice was done they were allowed to participate with friends. It seems that the children in both families probably were happy children. Most people I know here in Washington State are in the middle of what these ladies believe in. Me for instance I believe that when my child plays a sport that excellence in mandatory. We will learn how to be one of the best players, we will master the sport, we will and discipline is mandatory. I feel the same way about school, we will be top of our class, and we will exceed expectations. But my children have playdates, sleepovers and have playdates. So I’m almost caught in the middle of what these articles speak about. We can master