Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother Book Review

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Battle hymn of the tiger mother book review. Time magazine battle hymn of the tiger mother is entertaining bracingly honest and yes thought provoking the new york times book review a riveting read far from being strident the book s tone is slightly rueful frequently self deprecating and entirely aware of its author s enormities chua s story is far more complicated. This book was bittersweet for me. It s not even close to a parenting primer. Perhaps it is up to sophia and lulu to write that book.

The battle hymn of the tiger mother reveals a previously guessed at but carefully closeted chinese approach to child rearing. Battle hymn of the tiger mother by amy chua review amy chua s hugely controversial guide to successful parenting chinese style is a tick list of rights and unacknowledged wrongs sun shuyun. And yet it rings a bell and i was surprised on how true this is. Battle hymn of tiger mother is a story of chinese parenting towards the extreme.

Her mother for anyone who has sworn off media for all these weeks of coverage is amy chua the author of battle hymn of the tiger mother a hair raising child rearing memoir that has. At moments it was hard to read the stories mirroring my own experiences albeit too close for comfort. Battle hymn of the tiger mother is not a parenting primer whatever the original wsj may have lead people to believe. While western mothers praise a child for every squiggle drawn chua.

So battle hymn of the tiger mother chronicles its author s constant demanding wheedling scolding and screaming. As the daughter of a fierce tiger mother i avoided this book for the longest time. By demonstrating both the successes and the unvarnished personal costs of chua s method battle hymn of the tiger mother leaves the reader wondering about the feasibility of some middle educational way where discipline and self expression unite. Battle hymn of the tiger mother.

Amy chua both defends and questions her methods throughout the book and she accounts for her generalization of chinese and western mother.