Creative Musings

My last blog post on Tiger mommies and Asian parenting has been copied word by word, ditto, verbatim by a nondescript user Jp6363 on a site called just4mums.net which has no contact info whatsoever .....within hours of my post having been published. No link has been provided to my blog and even my blog name 'creative musings' has been picked up. In fact the cheek of it is that my blog heading has been created with a permalink to that very bogus site. The blatant act is so mindless (or maybe the work of a software) that not even a single 'I' has been changed. So user Jp6363 I assume is a mother of a boy like me, is an Asian parent like me and has moved from India, to UK to Singapore like me - right user Jp6363??? Would you like to copy this blog post too?

The subject of parenting holds an almost magnetic attraction for me and I am instantly riveted to any book , article or discussion on it. Amy Chua's controversial book and the stupendous hype it created stirred me as a parent. Being an Asian parent myself who gave birth and briefly brought up my son in London, and now staying in Singapore, a country Eastern in its values (predominantly Chinese ) but completely cosmopolitan in its lifestyle, has, given me a valuable insight into how different races bring up their children. The disparities between the Asian and Western approach to parenting are huge and needless to say there is a disconnect in how one set of parents looks at the others' parenting style. It is difficult to say whose methodology is better. We see Asian children excelling at academics and generally do not need any extra incentives to attend University unlike their Western peers. But at the same time it is notable that the most successful entrepreneurs of our times