Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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Amy Chua
A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: the most talked-about book of the year'Blissfully funny' India Knight, Sunday Times'Entertaining, bracingly honest and, yes, thought-provoking' New York Times'A treat from first to last: ruefully funny, endlessly self-deprecating, riven with ironies .. I relished this memoir' IUpdated with a new postscript by Amy Chua and a letter from her eldest daughter, SophiaBattle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. It was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how you can be humbled by a thirteen-year-old.Witty, entertaining and provocative, this is a unique and important book that will transform your perspective of parenting forever.
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Author
Amy Chua
Pages
272
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Published Date
2011-01-11
ISBN
1408814161 9781408814161
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"I hated this book. It reads like a braggy mother's instruction guide on how to raise children who win awards but cannot make their own choices. Children who might get into an Ivy League schools but have a obscure sense of love and parental relationships. Regardless of the anecdotal evidence of Amy Chua's daughters' success or feelings toward their mother, there is a wealth of research that shows children with overscheduled lives have more trouble making and reaching goals than children who have had less structured lives. Do we really want salaries and awards to be the extrinsic motivators for our children? What kind of world would we live in if those were everyone's goals? What makes the book even worse is that you can tell throughout that Chua is moving towards some kind of redemption for her awful behavior, but she takes it all back in the end lays more hate on Western parenting. It's tragicomedy."
Andrew Greene