So basically "Chinese Mother" in this term means tyrannical dictator who will drive their children to suicide/drugs/anorexia/obesity/(other reaction to mental a

So basically "Chinese Mother" in this term means tyrannical dictator who will drive their children to suicide/drugs/anorexia/obesity/(other reaction to mental abuse) and those that don't will look like huge successes and all those that did get driven to some coping mechanism are branded as been raised by "Western Mothers". One of my friends had, I guess what would qualify as, a "Chinese Mother" for a father. He was a totalitarian... until he got kicked in the groin by his son at age 13 (with his leg that was in a plaster cast at the time) and missed three days of work (confirmed by my mother who worked with him) for "personal reasons". Suddenly, almost overnight, he was allowed to go to sleepovers, he joined the school play, his grades dropped because he was allowed out to see his friends. His dad was an arrogant douche, it's not a social or racial difference because he'd come from working class British background. It's a personality type and it's called a raging pompous douchebag AKA King Douche. I fail to see how orchestrating my child's life will lead to my child being a success. It will lead to me being a success by proxy, which is really all what these parents care about. They're the football/hockey/soccer/(insert sport) parents that force their kid to every single game, to every single practice no matter what whether the child wants to be in the sport or not, because the parent never got the chance/almost made it pro/whatever narcissistic reason. I've seen a lot of people with this type of overbearing psycho parent wind up deep in the drug scene because they never got their parents approval. Whilst the kids that don't have to fight for approval in every area of their life all seem to end up with decent lives because they learnt the necessary coping skills.