3.2 Love me tender Teach me HARD!

      Through the poster merry-go-around, we get many suggestions from other classmates in other groups. The most interesting suggestion might be provided by group two. They think that the way that Tiger Mother educate kids is not the same as喬喬’s issue.    The members in group two think that when it is related to interests or accomplishments, kids cannot be educate in the same way as in teaching the school works or etiquette. “It is not the same.” said group two, “You can educate your kids in a strict way when teaching him school works or something like these. I mean, kids should be compelled to do school works even though they are boring. So the severe family education is necessary here. But it is different when talking about learning accomplishment. It is the kid’s choice to learn accomplishments like music instruments, so you should not take the two as the same to discuss.” According to them, it will be better to interview those parents whose kids ask to learn instrument. Parents should have different ways to teach kids when in different situations.

      But is that right? Even though learning accomplishments are quite different to school works, parents still should compel kids to learn since kids tend to get tired  and become lato learn things. The main purpose of family education is to make kids become more responsible, so there should be no differences in teaching—no matter what do parents want to teach. 

3.1 Is "sparing the rod and spoiling the child" a correct proverb?

From “Tiger mother” to “喬喬”, people start to pay much attention to family education. The traditional stereotype makes people believe that “spare the rod and spoil the child”, and it indeed makes parents have a good reason to educate their kids in a severe way. This problem is even more serious in Chinese society, that many parents believe that it is allowable to use physically or spiritually punishments to educate their children. From the past few years this problem starts to change. “Steel discipline” is replaced by “affectionate edification”, so the new problem comes with the tide of fashion: more and more spoiled kids can’t stand any stress, and the cozy surroundings makes the kids become the so-called “soft strawberries”. What on earth is the best way to educate kids?

        From the case of “喬喬”, we know the little girl’s father firmly believes in the stiff disciple. His punishment to his daughter is to break his daughter’s ukulele in order to remind her how important that the insistence is. Some people think that his behavior is appropriate, but more people believe that 喬喬’s dad is out of control. So which one is better? The steel discipline or the affectionate edification? This is the problem that we are going to ask in the interview.