{"id":13014,"date":"2011-01-19T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T20:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/?p=13014"},"modified":"2011-01-17T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T20:13:54","slug":"tiger-mother-meets-ayelet-waldman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/01\/19\/tiger-mother-meets-ayelet-waldman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Mother Meets Ayelet Waldman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

From WSJ:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some of the things that my four children of a Jewish mother were always allowed to do:<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u2022 Quit the piano and the violin, especially if their defeatist attitude coincided with a recital, thus saving me from the torture of listening to other people\u2019s precious children soldier through hackneyed pieces of the juvenile repertoire, plink after ever more unbearable plonk.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u2022 Sleep over at their friends\u2019 houses, especially on New Year\u2019s Eve or our anniversary, thus saving us the cost of a babysitter.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u2022 Play on the computer and surf the Internet, so long as they paid for their Neopet Usuki dolls and World of Warcraft abomination cleavers out of their own allowances.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u2022 Participate in any extracurricular activity they wanted, so long as I was never required to drive farther than 10 minutes to get them there, or to sit on a field in a folding chair in anything but the balmiest weather for any longer than 60 minutes.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u2022 Quit said extracurricular activities, especially if their quitting coincided with league finals that might have demanded participation on my part exceeding the requirements stated above.<\/p>\n

<\/a>In the days since this newspaper published Amy Chua\u2019s simultaneously entertaining and infuriating excerpt from her new book, \u201cBattle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,\u201d my two elder children, 16 and 13, have devoted a remarkable amount of time to raging against the essay and crafting compelling and bombastic rebuttals to be delivered to Ms. Chua herself, should they ever encounter her\u2026..<\/p>\n

I have a feeling that had one of Amy Chua\u2019s daughters suffered from a learning disability like Rosie\u2019s, Ms. Chua would have channeled her admirable perseverance into finding a solution that worked for her child. She would have been just as dogged and determined, but in an entirely different way. Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed. Amy Chua and I both understand that our job as mothers is to be the type of tigress that each of our different cubs needs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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