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The power of being a parent is infinite; raising your kids the way you think fit for your children to have the success they need in life to be happy. No one parent is like another, each parent does things in their own way. Telling another culture they are doing the wrong thing by raising their children the way they seem fit is wrong; they have that power. Mothers in general have the biggest influence on a kids’ life, because of the connection they share from birth and on. In the essay â€Å"Why Chinese Mothers are Superior†, Chua is claiming Chinese mothers know best when it comes to raising children to become successful in the work force. Sacrificing being happy as children for being happy as adults. In another essay â€Å"Mother Inferior?†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦show more content†¦For fun Chua lets her kids practice the piano or the violin; she taped violin notes on the television screen. Rosin lets her children take part in school activities which includes school plays (w hich Chua thinks should never be allowed). Rosin’s eldest son was accepted into Carnegie Hall, which is the great crescendo if the Chua family story, but Rosin also tells her other children that they are amazing in other things and makes sure that they feel important. Chua believe that if it is not perfect it is a failure; if their child is coming how with a grade any lower than an A, they are failing in her eyes. Not only they need to get an A in that class but if they do not graduate at the top of their class then it is a disappointment in Chinese mothers’ eyes. All though both of these essays are about the extreme opposites between two different kinds of parenting tactics, they do have similarities or middle grounds. Both parents want the best for their children. They want future success for them; they just have different ways in letting them realize how tough the world really is. 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