Does tiger parenting backfire?

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<p>interesting snapshots of different parenting styles, from around the world:
[Christine</a> Gross-Loh: Have American Parents Got It All Backwards?](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Have American Parents Got It All Backwards? | HuffPost Life)</p>

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**We need to let 3-year-olds climb trees and 5-year-olds use knives. **
… a Norwegian researcher at Queen Maud University in Norway, has found in her research that the relaxed approach to risk-taking and safety actually keeps our children safer by honing their judgment about what they’re capable of. </p>

<p>Children can go hungry from time-to-time.
In Korea, eating is taught to children as a life skill and as in most cultures, children are taught it is important to wait out their hunger until it is time for the whole family to sit down together and eat… All children eat the same things that adults do, just like they do in most countries in the world with robust food cultures. </p>

<p>Instead of keeping children satisfied, we need to fuel their feelings of frustration.
The French, as well as many others, believe that routinely giving your child a chance to feel frustration gives him a chance to practice the art of waiting and developing self-control. </p>

<p>**Children should spend less time in school. **
The Finnish model of education includes a late start to academics (children do not begin any formal academics until they are 7 years old), frequent breaks for outdoor time, shorter school hours and more variety of classes than in the US… </p>

<p>Thou shalt spoil thy baby.
In Japan, where co-sleeping with babies and kids is common, people are incredulous that there are countries where parents routinely put their newborns to sleep in a separate room. The Japanese respond to their babies immediately and hold them constantly… when babies get their needs met and are loved unconditionally as infants, they more easily become independent and self-assured as they grow.</p>

<p>Children need to feel obligated.
In China, parents do the opposite: the older children get, the more parents remind them of their obligations… the cultural ideal of not letting adolescents go but of reminding them of their responsibility to the family and the expectation that their hard work in school is one way to pay back a little for all they have received, helps their motivation and their achievement.

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