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News & ArtsWednesday, February 8, 2012
Parenting Issues The Eagle Dad
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:44 PM
BEIJING / NANJING - A man calling himself "eagle dad" recently stirred up a public controversy after he uploaded a video of his 4-year-old son, whom he had forced to run naked in the snow, to the Internet.There is also a "wolf father" in Hong Kong. The "wolf father" supports the "eagle dad" in Nanjing. Next? A "grasshopper grandmother"? What kind of grandmother would that be?
The father He Liesheng, 44, considers himself a new Chinese parental archetype in the tradition of the so-called "tiger mom".
"When the old eagle teaches its young, it takes the young eagles to the cliff side, beats them and pushes them to teach them to use their wings, and I believe I am helping my son in this way - to force him to challenge limitations and exceed his own expectations," said He.
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Grasshopper Grandmother fucks around all summer and by the time winter rolls around, she's starving and left out in the cold.
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@4:
China is always going to win WW III, if it's purely a game of numbers.
Which is why the U.S. still maintains its nuclear arsenal...
China is always going to win WW III, if it's purely a game of numbers.
Which is why the U.S. still maintains its nuclear arsenal...
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Hm, the model I'm trying to live up to is "bare-minimum Dad". And really, isn't that the best kind of Dad?
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I'm a crouching tiger hidden otter gay uncle. It's a pretty hands-off role, I just buy birthday presents and stuff.
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The Lying Jackals of Yankee Imperialism will not force the Eagles of the People to keep their offspring from the Cliffs of Perseverance!
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Running naked in snow is no big deal, especially for kids who have high metabolisms. I've done it. Nobody but nobody has been harmed by a brief run.
It also has a long tradition, particularly in Asia where it's viewed as self-strengthening. My martial arts teacher stripped down and bathed in snow when he was a boy in Korea. Many years later, he had us white college boys (and girls) do it. Later, I had my students do it.
Nobody was hurt. Nobody got sick. Nobody walked off in anger. It was pretty much everybody laughing and rubbing snow in each others' backs.
It also has a long tradition, particularly in Asia where it's viewed as self-strengthening. My martial arts teacher stripped down and bathed in snow when he was a boy in Korea. Many years later, he had us white college boys (and girls) do it. Later, I had my students do it.
Nobody was hurt. Nobody got sick. Nobody walked off in anger. It was pretty much everybody laughing and rubbing snow in each others' backs.
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Of course, you could be a child under the gentle care of Chuckie and be taught to ignore people snooping around you or your stuff and hope that your cell phone doesn't get stolen or you get ass-raped. (But hey, at least you weren't profiling!)
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China's mythical bullshit can do anything! Remember the Boxer Rebellion? They used kung fu to defeat the British! Amazing shit but true. All true.
Being all tiger and eagle and whatnot is going to work out just as great.
Being all tiger and eagle and whatnot is going to work out just as great.
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@10 and this connects up with a man forcing his 4 yo to run through snow how...? I mean I'm just guessing the pupils you have are either old enough or well informed enough to know they can decline, right? They are doing something of their own free will, which this kid wasn't.
For those who think that this somehow is justified in the assumption that it would help them beat you in some fictive future world war can I suggest another form of lion/wolf/eagle kind of parenting?
What you do, right, is you round up all boys in the ages 8-13 and send them off to a youth camp. Lets call it "Eagle Youth". Then you make them fight each other until only one is standing every now and then and that boy standing you call "The Prince of his class" or "The First of his group" or something - that would toughen them right up. Then you start a war.
...And THEN you realize that conviction, fysical strength and willpower is shit compared to a functioning army system, warm winter jackets and effective supply lines that you don't over stretch.
For those who think that this somehow is justified in the assumption that it would help them beat you in some fictive future world war can I suggest another form of lion/wolf/eagle kind of parenting?
What you do, right, is you round up all boys in the ages 8-13 and send them off to a youth camp. Lets call it "Eagle Youth". Then you make them fight each other until only one is standing every now and then and that boy standing you call "The Prince of his class" or "The First of his group" or something - that would toughen them right up. Then you start a war.
...And THEN you realize that conviction, fysical strength and willpower is shit compared to a functioning army system, warm winter jackets and effective supply lines that you don't over stretch.
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