
Setiap anak perlu pendekatan yang berbeda-beda, karena mereka memiliki karakter yang unik, berbeda satu dengan yang lainnya.
Membaca artikel dari The Jakarta Post, membuat saya berkesimpulan, masih banyak yang perlu dipelajari sebagai orangtua. Oh ya, Bu Enny Edratna pernah juga membuat tulisan dengan tema yang nyaris sama, dengan artikel di koran harian berbahasa Inggris itu.
Ini link artikel Bu Enny : Percakapan Ringan
Eight ways to be a tiger mom
Nury Vittachi, Bangkok | Sun, 01/30/2011 3:33 PM | Opinion
Asian kid living in London enters home. His school friends shout: âHappy birthday! Surprise!â The kid continues on his way to his room, saying: âI have homework. Enjoy the party. I may join you later.â
Thatâs a true story. That kid was me. I wasnât being obnoxious. Asian kids are rigidly conditioned to a) study;Â b) have bad haircuts; c) like maths; and d) eat foods that other kids find disgusting like dried squid or sliced, char-grilled dissident. My upbringing did me no harm at all, except to turn me into the drooling, unstable, gun-polishing, stairwell-lurker that I am today.
These days I live in Asia and half the moms I know are Tiger Moms (a term popularized by US monster-mom Amy Chua), while others take a kinder, gentler stance. Letâs compare them.
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