With all the focus on grades and scores, let’s take that to the nth degree. IF your child suddenly does a 180 and gets an A+ in every class between now and the end of college AND because he got perfect SAT scores, he went to Harvard, now what? “The world is his oyster,” you [...]
Tiger Mothers
Amy Chua’s “Tiger Mother” articles have combusted into a raging debate about east/west strategies. So when I met a lovely young woman, Jennifer, from Shanghai, I was particularly interested in her story. Jennifer told me, “Two of us were picked from my grammar school to go to this elite middle school. But when we got [...]
My mother is American French-Irish and most definitely not a Chinese Tiger Mother, as Amy Chua describes herself. My mother played the piano beautifully (though not as well as Chua’s kids) for fun and relaxation every spare minute she could find in a day. Even though this was her first love, my mother did not [...]