The debate over the Tiger Mother

The Wall Street Journal recently published a piece by an Asian American Yale Law professor named Amy Chua about how she was raising her two daughters that has elicited quite a bit of feeback--as in 5,000 comments on the WSJ website, a few death threats and hundreds of emails.  The Journal had titled the piece, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" and it was an excerpt from her upcoming book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. 

In a nutshell, she was extremely demanding of her children and would force them to practice their musical lesson for three hours a day and they couldn't even think about receiving anything short of straight A's in their school work.  I was really fascinated by the story and just came across a follow up piece about the inevitable controversy when more westernized parents put their two cents in. 

In the follow up piece Mrs. Chua was discussing her husband's laid back approach to parenting and asking him whether he had any dreams for their daughter's future, and then asked, if he had any dreams for Coco?  He began laughing because Coco is their dog!  I am not sure what to make of that question, but it cracked me up.  Here is a link to the original story;    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html

Here is a link to the follow up story where Mrs. Chua discusses the backlash, asks about Coco, and perhaps is doing a little backpedaling;  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/fashion/16Cultural.html?src=me&ref=homepage