tiger mothers

[Joel S. Berson]

How much of this has been prompted by the very recent book by Amy
Chua, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother"?  Her book was mentioned
(more authentically, promoted) by a "colleague" and fellow (Yale?)
professor in a NYTimes article Jan. 10 as about to come out, she had
an essay in the Wall Street Journal (I'm not surprised) before
Jan.10, she apparently was on a book tour in the U.S. last week, and
she is called a "Wimp" by David Brooks in the NYTimes on the 17th.

(CNN must have taken "wimp" from either Brooks or the book itself.)

Joel

At 1/24/2011 07:08 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>CNN discusses "kids who were raised by so-called 'tiger mothers.'"
>
>Tiger mothers live mostly in China. There are millions of them. They use
>very tough love to turn their kids into world-beating overachievers, unlike
>American mothers who use wimpy love to turn theirs into whining,
>talentless losers.
>
>How to Tell them Apart: tiger moms harass kids till they shape up; mama
>grizzlies protect them from socialism.
>
>148,000 hits for "tiger mother," 124,000 for "tiger mom," 5,000 for "tiger
>mommy."  Of course, most of these - esp. the last - refer to real tiger
>moms.
>
>Some background here:
>http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2011/01/21/tiger-mothers-vs-most-americans/?cxntfid=blogs_cynthia_tucker
>
>
>JL
>
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