Bloomberg Reports: Tiger Mom Kid Gets Into Harvard

glassesarechic
Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:53:06 +0000

I’m not necessarily a proponent of “tiger parenting” (my parents have been fairly hands-off with me, since I’m more independent than my brother and sister), but I do think there’s a certain value to it. Chua herself put it best by saying that her parenting style assumes strength rather than weakness in a child, and her kid was clearly pushed to perform to the very best of her ability in a way that kids often are not. There’s value in becoming extraordinarily good at things, even if the value is just learning that hard work is meaningful and that you can do things you never thought possible, like master a difficult finger sequence.

I only hope that she’s not so attached to her mother’s constant pushing that she doesn’t thrive in college without her there.