It was interesting to read the various articles on different views on parenting and how that differently affects the future generation. Although there were many aspects of the "Nation of Whimps" article that I agreed with, such as kids are becoming more and more reliant on their parents and less likely to deal with pressures of becoming an adult due to parents being overprotective, some of the evidence used in it was also very extreme cases. The same also goes for the "7 Things" parenting article as although I agree with some points such as over-encouraging kids even when they are wrong, there are also some extreme cases that can go either way depending on the context/extreme such as the let your kid "be who they want to be" regardless of what others may think. The "Tiger Mom" article especially stuck out and connected with me though because I related to this style of parenting the most. Not to be steriotypical, but as my parents were both Asian, they're very strict and hold traditional values. Although they weren't as extreme as to not let me join sports teams or have sleepovers or what-not, they did in fact value school-work and responsibilities the highest. When I was younger and didn't do a homework assignment due to playing with my friends instead, my mom got angry and didn't let me have a birthday party even when it was only in elementary school. I was also forced to practice the piano and even would hide my books because I would get sick of practicing. But the work ethic they raised me up with has certainly been beneficial, and they've supported me with things that I actually wanted to do as well, so I definitely see the value in this style of parenting as well. Overall, there's some aspects of either parenting style that work well, and some that can be too extreme, but it was interesting to see just how vast the contrast was in some cases.