A kind mother and a severe father or inverse

In a lot of families, there is always a kind mother and a severe father. The mother plays the kind and soft role in the family, she cares about the kids on diet, clothing, play and including a certain education, and so on. The father is strict one, and most focus on the education. If the kid is naughty or makes some mistakes, the father will give the kid a lesson or punish the kid. Therefore, the kid is on best behavior in front of father, but free in front of mother.


However, there are some families different from the situation above. It seems like the hot serial recently, that’s “tiger mother and wolf father” played by Zhao wei and Tong da wei. I just saw a few episodes at last weekend, it’s about how to educate their daughter, the mother has high expectations for her 7 years child, she wants all the subjects are best for her daughter, she wants her daughter to be a writer…On the contrary, the father asks for little from her daughter, he is not so strict as the mother, he doesn’t want his child fall into the fierce competition so early. So the parents have different attitude on the education, it caused some argument and quarrelling. Maybe there is no right or wrong problem, just nothing is perfect, no one is perfect. I think it’s fine to have Black role and White role in a family as long as they make mutual cooperation with each other. But for an young child, if it’s really a good way to bear so much expectation and suffer serious competition at his/ her young age? I am not sure it is true.