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: The Buck Stops Here

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

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Yale law professor Amy Chua has certainly raised a firestorm with her new book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which shot to fame with this Wall Street Journal preview. A sample: A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I've done it. Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do:? attend a sleepover? have a playdate? be in a school play? complain about not being in a school play? watch TV or play computer games? choose their own extracurricular activities? get any grade less than an A? not be the No...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on January 23, 2011 (boomark / email).

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