from Catholic Womanhood...Amy Chua, the now infamous “Tiger Mother,” delivered her parenting manifesto last week in a Wall Street Journal article headlined “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior.” The article, excerpted from her book, “The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” outraged American moms.
Circling about, sometimes snarling, American mommy-cats pounced on the Tiger’s arguments, shredding them with sharpened claws. Bewildered and a bit scratched up, Chua has been in defensive mode ever since, appealing for parents to see her book as a “personal memoir about her own struggles with child-rearing” not as “judgment on anybody else.” Chua’s daughter even came to her beleaguered mother’s defense, publishing a warm letter thanking her mom for parenting her, Tiger style.
One thing’s for sure. Chua’s book has sparked an American conversation about children, their parents, and the elusive notion of “success.”
What have we learned?
First, that we are utterly confused, as a society, about what “good parenting” means.
And second, following from the first, we don’t really know what defines “success.” What do we really want for our children?
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