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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
Lack of self reflection snd lesson learning up until the rbd if the book. It's hard to read without getting frustrated at the author, but I do understand her.
After all the drama and controversy surrounding this book, I suppose I expected it to be something other than a simple memoir of raising children. Chua's book is funny and ironic and not a horrific instruction manual on raising children in the "Chinese way." She is not blind to her own failings and reveals the universal parental truth - everyone wants what they believe is best for their kids.
It is an interesting read but I didn't like how she ended it.
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Whatever. This was ok. The press she got out of the book's launch and the WSJ article made me expect things much, much worse than what I actually read. Was she overbearing and way too intense? Sure. Is this particular to Chinese parents? Absolutely not. (More wondrous: how the hell did she manage to keep her job at Yale while devoting so much time to her daughters' every move?) For her sake I'm glad Lulu rebelled. I hope the girls turn out to have lovely, normal adult lives
An unnervingly honest and bravely written portrayal of one well educated American mother's efforts to successfully raise her two daughters in the face of our ever intensifying my banal culture. While many patenting books might meld with my own thoughts on patenting, I have never encountered an account as honest and open as this. Well worth a read no-matter your feelings on parenting pedagogy. You will question the wisdom you have likely tacitly accepted!
Without apology, the author tells how she is a Chinese Tiger Mom who is really tough on her daughters, demanding perfection. In a few years, I would like to read the daughters side of this story.
My daughter suggested I read this, and I'm glad I did. It has been getting a lot of press lately...I've seen it mentioned in both my teaching magazine and in Runner's World! I am definitely not a Tiger Mother...maybe I should be! :) The ending was a good resolution.
I didn't find her to be as crazy as the media has made her out to be. That being said, she is still pretty extreme in some of her parenting choices. Quick, interesting read.
This book was easy enough to read, and even though I never grew up with a Chinese mother, I certainly did grow up with a stubborn one. I think there's a lot of interesting points in this book, mainly that the extreme parenting style of demanding perfection at all times works wonders for some children and destroys others. Luckily, it turned out well for both of Ms. Chua's children, but I enjoy that she shows the struggles she has with her younger daughter as well, and certainly does not tout her style of parenting as the best. In the end, she comes down, as I do, on the side of balance--many children, myself included, are far too young and inexperienced in the world to understand regret; and I heard often in my childhood that my mother had wished she would have pushed me harder, made me try more things, rather than just only offering what would make her happy and then being disappointed when it didn't work out. Of course, there was huge controversy about this book when it was first published--in our age of self-esteem, it was unimaginable that someone would parent their children through screaming them through the tough times that would get them to the better ones.
That said, I don't think I would have survived with Amy Chua as my mother; I would have never saw her pushing as her way of saying 'I believe in you, I believe you can be better than this', but if it works, I am sure that it does, and no one can say that she didn't sacrifice for her family. However, if you're looking for something really dramatic and scandalous, that's something this book isn't.
That said, I don't think I would have survived with Amy Chua as my mother; I would have never saw her pushing as her way of saying 'I believe in you, I believe you can be better than this', but if it works, I am sure that it does, and no one can say that she didn't sacrifice for her family. However, if you're looking for something really dramatic and scandalous, that's something this book isn't.