In the week since The Wall Street Journal published an excerpt of the new book by Amy Chua, a Yale law professor, under the headline “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” Ms. That you threw the homemade birthday cards they gave you as 7- and 4-year-olds back in their faces, saying you expected more effort. Note that you once told your own hyper-successful Asian-American daughter that she was “garbage.” That you threatened to throw out your other daughter’s dollhouse and refused to let her go to the bathroom one evening until she mastered a difficult piano composition.
TRY this at a dinner party in one of the hothouses of Ivy League aspiration - Cambridge, Scarsdale, Evanston, Marin County:ĭeclare that the way Asian-American parents succeed in raising such successful children is by denying them play dates and sleepovers, and demanding that they bring home straight A’s.
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