<p>VanGlenn, based on your other thread, I wonder if “Like everything else, it’s an angle and it’s a conversation piece for parents consumed with getting their kids to stand out.
And of course the Chuas now have something interesting to toss around when all of their friends brag about their offspring headed to medical and law school. Status points” is similar to how your relatives would describe you and your kids’ accomplishments. After all, it’s interesting that you think it’s bragging and showy when that’s how you’ve described how your in laws react to you. </p>
<p>Awww, even in her own right, with her own decisions and accomplishments, people can’t leave Sophia’s Mommy out of it. She sure sounds normal, to me (normal, high-achieving, self-assured, that is.) She has a vision (and youthful exuberance.) Why complain? Give her a break. </p>
<p>And consider that maybe her mother just hit a formula to make money on a book. Do I think her methods damaged her kids? Obviously not, regardless of how we feel about what she wrote. I don’t take the book as seriously as some do. </p>
<p>And add me to the overwhelming number here who find one poster’s comments to be judgmental and dismissive. What’s the point? </p>
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<p>I agree but perhaps this should start by starting to refer Sophia as something OTHER than a tiger cub or Amy Chua’s daughter. Refer to the title used by the OP for the context. The day that this happens is the day people might stop linking her to a mother that generates both derision and applause. </p>
<p>Fwiw, there is NO difference between the people who describe Sophia’s decisions as cynical badge-earning and the ones who jump at the story to suggest it represents a vindication of the strategies used by Amy Chua. Both sides are simply “objectifying” a remarkable young person to fit an agenda. Fwiw, the best thing about this girl is how different she is from her infamous mother. </p>
<p>Xiggi - I thought it was interesting that Sophia refers to herself as a “tiger cub” – check out her blog. It is interesting to think about whether she is where she is today because of or in spite of her parents. Probably some of both.</p>
<p>Also, I guess that junior high kids in ROTC <em>might</em> be there because their parents want to impress the neighbors, but I cannot imagine the same applies to a college student.</p>
<p>If one believes Tiger Parenting isn’t the right thing to do (and I don’t), then whether or not Sophia turned out “successful” or not isn’t the point. I can think that she sounds like an intelligent, thoughtful, mover and shaker, and still think that the end didn’t justify the means. Honestly, she sounds like she would have been a mover and a shaker no matter what the style of parenting. </p>
<p>Referring to US military service…</p>
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<p>Depends on what service, and what conflict. For example, in 2003-2006 in the Iraq theater, Navy and Air Force personnel had a lower death rate than overall US men age 20-34, while Army and Marines personnel had about 2.8 and 6.0 times higher death rates respectively.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082500940.html”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082500940.html</a>
<a href=“http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=psc_working_papers”>http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=psc_working_papers</a></p>
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Different? Harvard (like her mother), aimed in philosophy (like her father) and now elite law school school (like her mother and father). Not that there’s anything wrong with that.</p>
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Thats comparing apples to oranges. Many of the military folks might not have otherwise been in high crime/high risk areas. Certainly other causes of death (illness, accidents, etc) are perhaps a comparable risk for some, but other high risk causes might not have been. My DH was almost activated in Desert Storm. Where he lives/works, aside form a random risk of accident or illness, his safety was much higher here than there. Probably true for many others as well. What was the comparison of the death rate of the personnel in the Iraq theater vs other stations in, say Germany, Guam, Japan or stateside? Thats a better comparison.</p>
<p>VanGlenn, status and reputation are really important to you. You seem very sensitive to how others might perceive you. Why the lack of self confidence? </p>