Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother


Chua (Day of Empire) imparts the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child's phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua promotes what has traditionally worked very well in raising children: strict, Old World, uncompromising values--and the parents don't have to be Chinese. What they are, however, are different from what she sees as indulgent and permissive Western parents: stressing academic performance above all, never accepting a mediocre grade, insisting on drilling and practice, and instilling respect for authority. Chua and her Jewish husband (both are professors at Yale Law) raised two girls, and her account of their formative years achieving amazing success in school and music performance proves both a model and a cautionary tale. Sophia, the eldest, was dutiful and diligent, leapfrogging over her peers in academics and as a Suzuki piano student; Lulu was also gifted, but defiant, who excelled at the violin but eventually balked at her mother's pushing. Chua's efforts "not to raise a soft, entitled child" will strike American readers as a little scary--removing her children from school for extra practice, public shaming and insults, equating Western parenting with failure--but the results, she claims somewhat glibly in this frank, unapologetic report card, "were hard to quarrel with." (Jan.)
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People are talking about this book - and with good reason. Chua, a Yale law professor, offers up a style of parenting most Americans are not familiar with, and it is certainly not Dr. Spock. Even if you wouldn't do childrearing exactly as she did, Chua makes a compelling case that the pendulum in America has swung too far toward lazy indulgence and low expectations.

People who criticize the author for being "mean" completely miss the point. Chua had a strict Chinese upbringing that she believes served her well. She wants her daughters to have the same thing, and believes that not prodding children to fulfill all of their promise is letting them - and one's family -- down. It might not be "mean" to let children spend every free moment in front of a television or an X-Box, as so many Americans do, but it is no way to raise a child. 
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I read this very controversial book in one sitting and really enjoyed it! While I raised my daughters differently, and certainly disagree with many of Amy Chua's methods, I nevertheless found this memoir extremely interesting, compelling and funny. Even though I gasped at parts, shocked, I just as often laughed out loud...and I recognized a few kernels of truth about current western parenting. When you read the book (as opposed to just the WSJ excerpt) you discover that Ms. Chua comes off as more humble and, ultimately flexible, when her younger daughter rebels. Love this book or hate it...you will be talking about it for a long time. In fact, it's the perfect bookclub book...talk about a lively discussion!

Chua's book is not a how-to guide. It is a compelling, anecdote-rich story of a family, told with wit and self-deprecation, and some surprising turns. (As the book cover foreshadows, the author was indeed humbled by a 13-year-old.) I guarantee that if you pick it up you will not be able to put it down (I couldn't), and that you will soon be one of those people who can't stop talking about it. 
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