Children of tiger parents get very different values ​​than those of helicopter parents

What type of parent are you?

Do you belong to the helicopter parents or rather to the tiger parents?

Children of Tiger parents must dress warmly.

Kassel – When parents talk about bringing up their children, opinions differ on some topics.

Do I have to be stricter?

Do I need to loosen up?

Can my child stay up late in the evening, is there a standard time?

However, many parents fall into specific clusters and may not even know they belong to one.

Tiger Parents: What's the Difference to Helicopter Parents?

There is often talk of helicopter parents who overprotectively take care of their offspring.

Probably the most well-known term and nobody would publicly count themselves in the category, even if it is secretly true.

also reported on the category of curling parents, which even goes beyond the helicopter types.

Or does the junior need a hard hand in education?

Discipline, toughness, perfection and strict rules?

If that sounds like you, you could be one of the tiger parents described in a 2011 book by US professor Amy Chua.

Here the children are not patted and cared for, but raised in an authoritarian style.

Children's birthdays are something for other brats, a grade of "2" in school is far from good enough and there is also further development during the holidays.

Hard work is rewarded, but it is also necessary.

Book about tiger parents: Author Amy Chua lives the style herself

Amy Chua once wrote in the

that she would never let her children stay with other people, for example.

In her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) she also describes that there are long piano lessons for Louisa and Sophia during vacations.

In doing so, she counteracts the strategy of “Western parents” – mostly helicopter parents or lawn mower parents.

Tiger parents do not accept self-made pictures on the fridge, even if the child is proud of it.

It always gets better.

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Amy Chua at an event in Finland in 2016.

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Then as now, it was a hotly debated approach.

Especially in China, a measure designed to be successful, which not everyone has to like.