Yet you get the sense that she's secretly quite pleased and wouldn't change a thing.' [Sara Vilkomerson, We're supposed to believe that Chua realized her mistakes along the way. There's the time she rejected her daughters' homemade birthday cards, and the time she threatened to burn their beloved stuffed animals if their music didn't show improvement. 'Her writing is smart and lively, but while she strives for self-deprecation, her fights with her children can be downright uncomfortable to read.'In spite of her charming glibness, her self-effacing confessions, her guffaw-inducing rants, Chua's jaw-dropping methods.are often of the 'don't try this at home' variety: rejecting hurriedly handmade birthday cards, insisting she deserves better 'bloodbath practice sessions' arranging piano access for multihour practices wherever the family vacationed (which was often and far) even humiliating her daughters to force them to present pitch-perfect tributes at their beloved grandmother's funeral.' [Terry Hong,.Her birthday card revelation - Chua rejected her daughter's handmade cards because they weren't good enough - seems destined to be a talking point for her offspring's future therapy sessions. In the book, Chua, a Yale law professor,ĭefends the strict parentingof her two daughters (no play dates, no TV) on the grounds that she's creating high-achieving children, while simultaneously dissing what she views as the permissive style of Western parenting. Amy Chua's parenting memoir, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,' is sure to be a topic of debate at the cocktail parties of the upwardly mobile.

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