From forcing your child to spend hours at music practice to demanding they get straight As, here’s another thing to add to the list of so-called tiger parenting methods – making them kowtow.
A video sent to Apple Daily showed a girl, aged around six years, apologising profusely and bowing her head to the ground several times as her mother reportedly scolded her for something she did wrong during badminton practice.
The incident took place on a street outside the Tai Hing Sports Centre in Tuen Mun around 11am on Thursday morning. The mother was said to be mad at her daughter because she was not looking the right way during practice.
As the pair left the sports centre, the woman was reported to have shouted at the girl: “Go on! Carry on walking. Don’t come home with me.”
The girl then knelt in front of her mother and began to kowtow, saying: “I know I did wrong, I’m sorry.”
The person who filmed the incident, identified only as Cheng, said he shot the video from the basketball court opposite the sports centre and told the paper the girl had kowtowed between 10 to 20 times, until the mother took her away.
He added that several people had walked past the pair and ignored what was going on, while a man with an umbrella eventually attempted to take the mother to task but was ignored.
The term ‘tiger mother’ is often used to describe strict Chinese parenting, where the children are pressured to overperform and overachieve.
