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Raising a child and preparing them for their adult life is completely different around the world. There is great disagreement about it, and it is difficult to concretize a particular solution.

How to raise your child and be good parents is culturally determined. The parents using various methods they probably learned from their parents.

In China, children are not necessarily raised in the same way as in America, because of the different sets and values in these cultures.

The set of values in connection with Parenting and education in Chinese and American parents has a majority of differences and a minority of similarities.

But one thing that is broad agreement upon among parents is that they want their children to be happy and successful.

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Particularly, when it comes to dutifulness and respect it is distant that the values in China and America are completely different.

The American children are very free and choose for themselves what they want and when they want to do things. This is also related to the traditional American values of individual freedom and self-reliance.

With individual freedom, children have more control over their destiny without outside interference. With Self-reliance the children can be more independent on their own two feet and believe in their own capabilities .

Which Chau think is wrong to give her children so much to say, she comments "I think that we in America can ask just a little bit more of our children and they will not only rise to the challenge but thrive” .

However, not all values are different between the two cultures. One value that is very important in both Chinese and American culture is: Hard work.

Hard work is a fundamental value in America, and it is a necessary element in achieving the American Dream . But it looks like the Chinese take it to the next step.

According to Chua, everyone can learn everything if they work hard enough. She comes up with a clear example where she keeps pushing her 10-year-old daughter when she had had a bad math test and she said that she hates math

and I am bad at it. Chua did not accept that, so she did math tests and hand wrote them and jeweled them with her for a week.