Mamma- Maniac!

I all of a sudden found myself thinking sociologically when I was reading the article about the chineese mom. I honestly believe that she is going way too overboard. She is messing up her kids by being way too strict with them and not letting them do what they want to do. She is trying to teach them to be very good at something that they don't even like and she is not forming a very loving bond. Instead, it is going to end up as more of a fear bond instead of having trust and confidence towards her mother. I think that she needs to let her children relax a little bit and try to support her children in activities that they want to do, not in things that she wants them to do.

According to Mead, her children would not have a generalized other nor a symbolic other becasue the relationship the children have with their mother is so strict that they would not have the ability to form a close and healthy, happy bond. And according to both Cooley and Freud that all of the things happening during their childhoo, which the chineese mother is overcontroling, will affect their personality. And because all of these special bonds aren't forming, their stages of development aren't going to be able to develop. The mom may think she is helping her children but she is making them feel like they have to do things for their parents, not themselves. She needs to let her children do what they want while still having discipline on them. Balance is the key to everything.