Unless you've been in a media blackout -- which is something that can actually happen to moms who are too busy cooking, cleaning, feeding, bathing, and clothing their kids while trying not to neglect their husbands, and maybe working full-time too -- you probably know all about the Tiger Mom. But in case you don't, here's a quick refresher: Amy Chua is a Yale law professor whose parenting memoir,
The Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother, was recently excerpted in the
Wall Street Journal. It's caused a bit of a dust-up over parenting methods, at least in the print and online media, with subsequent articles about the book appearing in
The New York Times and
The Los Angeles Times, and it was even mocked satirically in the
Huffington Post.
The controversy it's generated seems to focus mostly on Chua's strict parenting of her tween-age girls, e.g., she didn't allow them playdates or sleepovers, they couldn't participate in school plays, they had to get straight As. In one instance, her elder daughter was forced to perfect a challenging piano piece while her mom threatened to take her dollhouse to the Salvation Army, and then Chua deprived the girl of dinner and even bathroom breaks.
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