Selection bias. The author is published because she ended up a professor at the top law school in the country. Plenty of Chinese mothers raise mediocre childre

Selection bias. The author is published because she ended up a professor at the top law school in the country. Plenty of Chinese mothers raise mediocre children, and they don't get to write opinion pieces in Murdoch rags. (Or did you take it literally when she claimed that Chinese children don't get B's?) But you're right that this parenting style has benefits. It strikes a chord with me, as a parent of small children, when she says that you're not doing them any favors by letting them give up. But parents have to find the right balance. Maybe the author's children benefited from having both kinds of parents, one strict and Chinese, one doting and Western---Cue shock and horror from Chinese grandparents. I know many successful children of mixed East/West families. Sure, that's anecdotal evidence, but so is this article.