Category
mom
Jewish moms taking offense to ‘Tiger Mother’
Jewish Journal
January 25, 2011
With her take-no-prisoners approach in “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” author Amy Chua has drawn the ire of mothers across America who take exception to the draconian measures she recommends to ensure successful, prodigious offspring. So it\’s little surprise that prominent among her critics are another group famous — infamous, some might say — for what they have to say about how best to be a parent: Jewish mothers. Chua\’s book and a synopsis she wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Jan. 8, “Why Chinese Moms are Superior,” lay out her parental rules — no sleepovers, no play dates, no television — and admiringly relate a story of how she once reduced her daughter to tears when she couldn\’t play a piano piece.
New Articles
For This Yale Alumnus, My Alma Mater Is Forever Tarnished
Sam Yebri
April 24, 2024
Passover Goodies
Debra L. Eckerling
April 24, 2024
Graduation Speeches are Going to Get Ugly, and Jews Need to Be Prepared
Tabby Refael
April 24, 2024
Sephardic Torah from the Holy Land | The Seventh Day…
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
April 22, 2024
The Middle Matza Passover 2024
Rabbi Mordecai Finley
April 22, 2024