ripping memoir of an american chinese woman's highly authoritarian maximum involvement type of parenting and how her views and family change over sixteen years. it strikes me that she is impossibly energetic to be able to hold down a full time job write acclaimed books travel and give talks as well as minutely monitor her daughters on the piano and violin. her jewish husband, not sharing the same cultural history, must be unbelievably long suffering or henpecked or he must be a total convert to the chinese way. amy chua is a blessed woman to still have a husband and daughters like hers after such sixteen years. i hope she realizes this.
what this book does is it makes me reflect on why i parent the way i do. odd that i question what i believe what i practice what i eat how i vote but parent mostly by the seat of my pants.
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