In the early 2010s, the hashtag “tiger parenting” swept through China’s online communities and media landscape. The term refers to an extremely strict approach of parents toward their children, especially regarding their academic achievement. At that time, many parents believed that grades were the most essential elements determining a student’s future, and a wave of extra classes on major subjects took over many regions, with millions of parents thrusting their kids into these classes after school and on weekends.
In recent years, however, parents are turning their attention toward children’s health, sporting abilities and aesthetics ideas, and tend to share experiences with their children in nature. These, and many other activities which academically minded parents had deemed useless, are on
