Chua believes that practice makes perfect and that when a child masters something he didn't like at first, he will later appreciate it. While Chua's statement may hold some truth, I believe the child's happiness comes from no longer having to practice the piece and finally relaxing. He bases his claim on the time his daughter Lulu learned a piano piece, a piece that Chua had forced Lulu to practice for hours, bringing pieces of her dollhouse to the Salvation Army every day she didn't master the piece and threatening her with no birthdays or Christmases for years. When Lulu finally mastered the piece, she smiled at her mother and began to play it perfectly. While Chua may have seen this as Lulu enjoying the piece she had finally learned, I see it as a little girl who was finally happy that her mother praised her and behaved instead of constantly yelling and screaming.