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The way of the 'Tiger Mother' - interview with Amy Chua

Jan 18, 2011 01:54

The award for controversial book of the year so far for concerned parents has to be Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

The author is a Chinese American academic at Yale, Amy Chua, and the book plots her "tough mothering" style of parenting.

Ms Chua explains her thinking.

The sound file is here. (4:36 in length ( Read more... )

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theempathogen January 29 2011, 08:26:26 UTC

You got really lucky. My mom is from Vietnam, and their culture is a severe one, I suspect even by Asian standards in general. Her parenting methods were actually toned down in comparison to her parents. Corporal punishment was literally the answer to everything in her parents' generation, to the point where her and her siblings would get whipped if they didn't come home with good grades. Once one of my aunts came home late and my grandma was waiting for her in front of the house with a pair of shears. She then proceeded to cut all my aunt's hair off ( ... )