Mothers and their daughters

The story, "Rules of the game" from the book The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan relates to the article written by Amy Chua: "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior". In Chua's piece, she focuses on telling the audience about what the lives of many Chinese children look like in comparison of those of, for example, western kids (Americans).
In Rules of the game, Waverly is a Chinese girl who has two brothers who are treated similarly to what Chua said kids in China are treated like. Chua focuses a lot on how the parents want their children to be successful in school in specific. In The Rules of the Game, Waverly's mother does not focus on her daughter's education though. One Christmas, Vincent, Waverly's brother  received a chess set from the church. Waverly became addicted to the idea of playing chess and when she learned how to play, she went started going out with people she didn't know and playing chess and as she did that, her sills improved.
One day, her mother realized that her daughter had a real talent; playing chess. So she signed her up for a tournament first and after she won that, she signed her up for more. She started as a local champion and ended up being a national champion. Her mother then became a real proud mother and this idea came to her, to only make her daughter practice chess and to forget about everything else. Her mother kind of forced her to improve, as she wanted her to because she wanted her daughter to keep winning so she could be proud and to kind of show off her daughter to others.

I went to school, then directly home to learn new chess secrets... But i found it difficult to concentrate at home. My mother had a habit of standing over me while i plotted out my games. I think she thought of herself as a protective ally. Her lips would be sealed tight, and after each move i made, a soft 'Hmmmmph' would scape from her mouth. 

Chua talks about a similar idea. The idea of education. Instead of education, Waverly's mother forces her to learn more chess than her studies. Its also like playing the piano and violin only.  This can be seen as one of those instruments.
I do think that Amy Tan's novel endorses Chua's arguments about motherhood.

There are too many distractions!!

One of the biggest problems I have is getting distracted when I am trying to focus on something important. It doesn't matter why is is. Everytime I do homework, when I draw, when I study, when I try to clean my room. There are always distractions.
When I am at school, I always get distracted and that is because I stet talking. Most if the time I am quiet and I pay attention, but when I get distracted, it's hard to focus back on my work.
Then I get home, and I am usually tired, wishing I could go to bed right away. I count how many hours I have until I have to go to bed and then I think about how much homework I have and then I predict how long it'll take me to finish all of it or if I will have to wake up early in the morning to finish it. Most of the time I have more than enough time to finish all my homework before 9pm or 10pm. I just get so distracted. One of the distractions I have is Facebook. I go on it everyday and it's hard for me to stop using it because like I talked about on my other post, it is addictive. So I spend some time on facebook, but not like before. I have learned to use it in a moderate way. Also, I start playing videogames. If it was up to me, I wouldn't do any homework and just come home and play all afternoon and night until I go to bed. But I also get distracted just by staring into space. I just lay on my bed and think. I stare at things for minutes and minutes and I waste a lot of time by doing that.
When I draw, I am usually sitting down on a desk, and half way through the drawing I get bored and just sit there for a while, not doing anything.
I get distracted a lot when I study. BecYse I try to memorize stuff without looking at the actual thing I'm learning the stuff from, I have to look away and try to think about that thing. When I do thy, I get lost sometimes because I often start to think about other stuff. I start thinking about anything else, and then I get bored. I start forgetting what I study and it all goes bad. Even small things such as a pen are distracting. I start playing with the pen as throwing it in the air, and that takes time. That time is wasted.
I always get distracted when I do things daily. I procrastinate a lot and I want to stop doing it. I need to manage my time better.

Facebook Addiction.

It has almost been for about a year and a half since I made my facebook account. I have to admit it, that thing is like a drug!I never thought i would get so into it. I had a MySpace before I made my facebook, and I thought that MySpace was the coolest thing out there. I knew facebook existed, but it didn't really seem to interest me. I would always see my sister on facebook and I'd ask and tell her, "what's so good about facebook? That's only for old people, MySpace is better." and she'd look at me like she didn't care. So one day I decided to make a facebook account, and I wasn't so excited about it but I still wanted one because I wanted to try it out.
My sister helped me demonstrate how to use it because when I logged in for the first time, I had no idea what to do. I was clueless. Since I didn't like it when I made it, my first status update said, "Facebook is so weird...". It took me fir about 3 or 4 days to understand what facebook was good for and how to use it.
Since facebook wasn't as popular back then, most of my friends had a MySpace, but as many of us started making facebook accounts, it began to be a popular social network. By the 4th month of having a facebook, I started to use MySpace less and each time less and using facebook more and more. By the 6th month, It became an addiction.
My first year of high school started and I made new friends. I met all of the ASTI students in like a week. At the beginning of my freshmen year, I added for about 150 friends just from ASTI to my facebook account. That was a great step toward my addiction. I remember after finishing homework, I would go on the computer and log in to facebook. I would spend all the night just reading statuses and having random conversations with different people. When Christmas time came, facebook was a part of my daily routine; wake up, eat, go to school, soccer, eat, homework and finally facebook.
Now, facebook is still a part of my daily routine. I know it is distracting, but I have learned to manage my time. I think some people have problems getting off of facebook because it is such a huge distraction. Some people have the capacity of being on facebook for hours and hours, continuously. I think that facebook is the largest social network world wide. Facebook is everywhere, and it continues growing.