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Q: Are Chinese children badly behaved?
You can see the behavior of the adults. Now, consider that those are the people who teach the kids how to behave.
Boys generally act like the spoilt little brats that they are. The girls are generally better behaved and more polite.
You can see the behavior of the adults. Now, consider that those are the people who teach the kids how to behave.
That's really not it. As eluded to above it's the parents.
3 things my Chinese nephew has learned in English from me:
- no running
- no hitting
- no biting
he knows that when with me none of these things are acceptable behaviour and he can say them out loud in good English and understands
unlike the the rest of the family that generally laugh at all his antics and misbehaviour, until he pisses one of them off so they slap at him and yell. Only because they are annoyed not because they are actually teaching him anything except that hitting , biting and yelling are ok .
e_mcdonald:
Honestly, my family in ireland are the same. I try teaching my cousin's son whats right or wrong and the rest of my family just let him do anything until he makes them angry enough that they just shout at him.
ScotsAlan:
And no spitting.
My wife had a big fight with her mum because the MIL was laughing at our daughter spitting in the MIL's face. The MIL was teaching our daughter to spit.
It's the old who behave bad.
Been teaching them for over ten years and I can't say I find them much different to kids back home. More respect for their teachers though I reckon.
They're well behaved. Whenever I start a class I strictly enforce the rules for the first few lessons and the kids are well behaved for the rest of the year!
I'd say they are quite normal taking into consideration that their parents and grandparents (the ones who they usually spend most of the time with) often lack good manners. Asian kids are also super cute!
As a former teacher, I didn;t like having to spend time with those kids, who learned from parents to treat foreigners differently and definitely not behave normally.
As a father, I experienced first-hand how the west has lost patience with children, and raising kids is more stressful because of it.
Asking if Chinese kids are badly behaved is a baited question, though you may not realize it. Yes, they behave badly, and it's due to their culture. But it's a big mistake to claim superiority based on this alone. Our own culture still needs to find a balance with kids, and if you don't acknowledge that, watch your home country become repopulated with migrants as the indigenous population withers away.
Getting annoyed at kids is normal; I get annoyed at my own 2 sons as well. But they are important for your family's longevity. Society should be tolerant of kids; this is something China has been doing right. Ignore or reject them at your own risk.
I believe I asked an important question on this topic a while back, but all you guys who love to complain about Chinese kids so much, were conspicuously silent...
http://answers.echinacities.com/question/tolerance-children
They are not bad, just not disciplined by their parents because these days to parents the kids are like a treasure that should be care for as royal jewels. But westerns know that you have to teach, you have to shout, you have to give examples and sometimes the butt has to get red. Chinese parents would never do this. Or not many.
Sometimes my sister screams at my nieces and nephew. I say, "Is that really necessary?"
"You don't have kids."
Fair enough.
