Child-rearing principles in three texts

1. Give an account of childraising principles as presented in the three texts.

In text 1 Why I love my strict Chinese mom from 2011, in this part Sophia Chua-Robenfeld the daughter Chua tells about her childhood and the method her mother raised her and her sister. They were raised tough but justly. This taught them to be more independent both as children and as adults. She tells ”You’ve pushed yourself, body and mind, to the limits of your own potential” L. 69-70, they learned to be strong and to believe in themselves, despite it taking hard work before it succeeds, a quality who Sophia Chua-Robenfeld also uses to this day in her life. In text 2 Let them eat pizza: Parenting guru’s recipe for bringing up children from 2011 has a whole other point of view of raising children. Kate Loveys tells us that parents has to be less protective of their children, no matter if they want to eat pizza or watch TV. The text thinks that parents definitely should not force them to anything, for example sports activities, which the children does not want to do anyway. This sentence tells short and accurately how parents raised their children””Cut themselves some slack” and stop trying to control every aspect of their child’s lives” L. 6-7. In text 3 Summerhill – a radical approach to child rearing from 1960 tells A. S. Neill’ his perception how children should be raised, he thinks that learning is an important part of children’s upbringing but parents teaches their children lot of things that they do not really need or is going to need. He even writes that the schools have become too unimaginative in their method teaching. But just like in text 2 has A. S. Neill’ the same opinion that children should decide on their own what their goals are in life, and that the parents nor the school should decide for them.