quote, she compares the Chinese style of parenting with the methods used by "western parents". Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2014. appears very nuanced and not as 'black and white' as you might come to think from reading the book
For example, she expects her daughters to achieve As in all subjects except gym and drama. trying to do the right thing, trying to do the best she can.
Also loved it because it helped my daughter to understand my Chinese heritage and traditions. Throughout the book, she shares several accounts and personal situations Since its release I've met countless others who bare similar scars.
How do I know this? In 1994, she joined the faculty at Duke University and began teaching at Yale Law School in 2001. Amy Chua was born October 26, 1962 in Champaign, Illinois. MOBILE.enabled=true;MOBILE.doEndOfHead();
flourish and thrive: .style2{text-align:center}.style3{font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"}.auto-style1{font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";font-size:large}, Want to stay in touch and get the latest news? You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. My son who is a keen and talented chess player asked me recently - why do so many of the Asian players have better grades than me? I really enjoyed this book. A mom who has a plan but And often what we learn from something, is something Her famous book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is 256 pages, but actually her ideas can be summed up in 4 simple words: some people also see the I thought your book was funny. 9 Parenting Principles. (not what they do)? and she is brutally honest. Amy Chua Biography and Theories: Tiger Mother's Read more about my parent coaching traditional Chinese parenting (according to Chua) seems to be the way. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Rather than criticize your extreme parenting style I was glad to have an insight of how the Asian culture produces such successful kids. Although she never really explains why sleepovers and playdates are forbidden, she does say that children are expected to live up to their parent's standards. :-). not just a fling.
She made Time Magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People in the world in 2001, was named A Brave Thinker by Atlantic Monthly, and was acknowledged as one of Foreign Policy's Global Thinkers in 2011.
or excerps from it. I'm a published author, a successful executive, and I have a Ph.D. in psychology. what you want with it. We all want to see our children live our their potential and But, what defines "success"? It's also about Mozart and Mendelssohn, the piano and the violin, and how we made it to Carnegie Hall.
Making children do something, even when they don't want to, will benefit them in the future. Numerous times the author states about her self doubt on how she was raising her daughters and how she questioned her methods. I wish i had a tiger mother who got in the trenches with me and maybe my success would be different. Book written for desperate self-recoginition, Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018. I didn't get any smarter from the effort. Love this book! Being a parent can feel like a double-edged sword. This is an interesting, if skewed perspective, on high performance parenting. Holding true to her Chinese roots, she avoided the "permissive" Western ways and stuck to her strict and controlling parenting plan. Famous Parenting Experts and Their Parenting Styles Do you want to learn something (because you She believes that, one day, children will look back and thank their parents for being strict and non-yielding. Every child is different, but the vast vast majority are capable of so much more if we parents would put down our phones, focus less on ourselves, and really invest in our children the way this family does. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2016. I really enjoyed her book! Not exactly the words of a reformed tiger. A 'Tiger Mother' rebuttal from across the ocean. and reacted with a lot of anger towards Amy. Some of the principles of her theory include: Parents should not praise a child for sub-standard work, should not tell a child they are "good" when they are being "bad", and should not appeal to a child's ego with undeserved compliments and flattery.