The tiger children fight back against Amy Chua | Joanna Moorhead

Two schoolgirls Chinese have published a survival guide for parents, aggressive, and gave us a valuable lesson about parenting

Like father, like son. So those of us who were surprised by the hard line, "Chinese way" of parenting revealed by Amy Chua in her book The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is not surprised by its follow-up - the news of a pair Beijing schoolgirls, desperate to drive their mothers desperate to force success, fought with the publication of an online guide on how smart kids, but draining, can respond when they are pushed to the edge of the cliff over-ambitious.

The complete book of fights with mom, written by Deng Chen Xinyi Leshui and describes how to cope when you are too close: they describe the towers from pause to mourn and bury his head in his shoulder Mom, to counter his anger at the fact that we have fairly well in school with a few insults on their own. It is the latest in a fascinating saga of two of the oldest debates in the world has ever known. Number one, what happens when the values ??of this meeting of the West? Number two, what a wise parent raising your child

• These questions are why we have been forced by the two descriptions US-born Chua how "breakthrough" of mathematics in their daughters, such as banning sleepovers and how it threatened to burn dolls stuffed his eldest daughter, if she did not 't do their practice piano. But as the new twist reminds us, the pride of his parents is not just the province of nagging mother tiger: a playful history students from Beijing and its fame found is that the father Online was one of them who published their advice on the Internet. Yes, it is an implicit criticism of how the girls had been raised, but that was blown over Leshui intelligent, cunning and advanced guidance of his daughter was. The desire to share with the world should have canceled the desire to maintain the skills of his wife's parents in the family, because he has decided to transfer to the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
• My father was about to parents, unpushy over the world: not once in all my years in school had to talk to any of my teachers about my work, and day I graduated from college, he asked me what I liked to study history. It would have been fine, except that my career was in politics. But here's the funny-how was very tired almost to the point of leaving school, my father was always proud of myself that day, and although their methods of parenting could not be more different from the Chua or young parents in Beijing, which is a feeling I had all the shares. But parents seem to be very different in how they do their part to raise the next generation, the only thing that attention is how it will turn out.

Therefore, the longest in the tooth that I as a parent, the less comfortable I feel about the criticism of any other way of doing things. One thing I firmly believe that it is this: the vast majority, most parents want the best for their children. How do you get the best that is very different, and how some parents choose to do so may be difficult or indifferent. But who can say that for children at the time, it was not the right way?

But there is another truth about parenthood, and the history of Beijing nail all worth it. Because first heard the story of Amy Chua, and now, two teenagers come to give their version of a similar story. And that's the bottom line in parenting: children have the last word. Every time.

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