<p>Battle Hymn of the Child Protective Services Officer.</p>
<p>@ Shortcut and the gang, Let’s remind ourselves the dark page of our history back in 1882 when the Chinese Exclusion Act enacted by the US Congress. </p>
<p>[Our</a> Documents - Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)](<a href=“Milestone Documents | National Archives”>Milestone Documents | National Archives)</p>
<p>Please address the issue of children’s education, as opposed to spreading racial and ethnic hatred. As a civilized nation, we can and should do better than that.</p>
<p>So, last night my daughter directed my attention to “tigersophia”, a new blog on blogspot (which of course can’t be linked under the terms of service) by Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld (and occasionally her younger sister Lulu, who by the way is a stunner). Apparently, she doesn’t like being characterized as mechanical or damaged, two of the more polite epithets that sometimes crop up in the writing of her mother’s critics. It’s pretty funny, and feels like the product of an authentic, smart high-school senior. The funniest piece (which may be Lulu’s) describes their mother ordering in a Chinese restaurant where she doesn’t speak the same dialect as the waiters.</p>
<p>I finished the book and have to say a few words. The mothers love of the kids is incredibly strong, intense, unconditional and crashing. She gave them her 110%. However, I wonder how many children, if any, would choose such a mother if there were a choice. What the kids have achieved has more to do with their innate capabilities and their resources than the mothers pushing. They mightve achieved all, happily, with half of the mothers involvement. The mother and the daughters turn out to be just fine because of one thing, the existence of a wise and capable husband and father.</p>