‘Tiger Mom’ daughter starts a blog, heads to Ivies - America's best-known "Tiger Mother," Yale Law Professor Amy Chua, may soon face some literary competition from her daughter.
High school senior Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, who along with her younger sister is featured in their mother's book advocating an intensely strict mode of parenting, started a blog earlier this month called "New Tiger in Town," where she sounds off on some of the controversy around her family. (Chua, whose memoir "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" came out in January, says she's even received death threats for her parenting stance. NPR talked to a panel of mothers who were "horrified" at the restrictions Chua said she placed on her children.)
"When the whole world's calling you a mindless robot, you kind of get the urge to start talking!" Chua-Rubenfeld writes of why she started the blog. "Even though 'Sophia' in the book is much more impressive than Sophia in real life. I think I'm sullying my impeccable image one post at a time, but so be it."
The accomplished pianist jokes that she hopes to "sleep all day, rave all night. Learn by osmosis," while at college. She also published a lively and funny defense of her mother in the New York Post. "One problem is that some people don't get your humor," she writes. "They think you're serious about all this, and they assume Lulu and I are oppressed by our evil mother. That is so not true. Every other Thursday, you take off our chains and let us play math games in the basement."
The blog Above the Law first reported on April 1 that Chua-Rubenfeld was accepted to both Harvard and Yale (and planned to attend Harvard). The post was titled the post "Tiger Mom Triumphant," suggesting that Chua's controversial child-rearing methods were vindicated in her daughter's Ivy League prospects.
Chua-Rubenfeld took to her blog to set the record straight, writing that she is "seriously considering both Yale and Harvard," and hasn't yet decided where to go yet.
The national debate started for Chua (and "Sophia") when part of her memoir was excerpted in the The Wall Street Journal. She wrote:
She told NPR that she eventually let her younger daughter, Lulu, give up the violin after she was worried her insistence on making her a play an instrument she hated would alienate her daughter forever. But Chua stands by her overall message that discipline is important. "If you just tell your child, you're great, you're great, you're perfect, I'm not sure that's the best way, because eventually your child's going to have to go out into the real world," she said. ( yahoo.com )
High school senior Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, who along with her younger sister is featured in their mother's book advocating an intensely strict mode of parenting, started a blog earlier this month called "New Tiger in Town," where she sounds off on some of the controversy around her family. (Chua, whose memoir "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" came out in January, says she's even received death threats for her parenting stance. NPR talked to a panel of mothers who were "horrified" at the restrictions Chua said she placed on her children.)
"When the whole world's calling you a mindless robot, you kind of get the urge to start talking!" Chua-Rubenfeld writes of why she started the blog. "Even though 'Sophia' in the book is much more impressive than Sophia in real life. I think I'm sullying my impeccable image one post at a time, but so be it."
The accomplished pianist jokes that she hopes to "sleep all day, rave all night. Learn by osmosis," while at college. She also published a lively and funny defense of her mother in the New York Post. "One problem is that some people don't get your humor," she writes. "They think you're serious about all this, and they assume Lulu and I are oppressed by our evil mother. That is so not true. Every other Thursday, you take off our chains and let us play math games in the basement."
The blog Above the Law first reported on April 1 that Chua-Rubenfeld was accepted to both Harvard and Yale (and planned to attend Harvard). The post was titled the post "Tiger Mom Triumphant," suggesting that Chua's controversial child-rearing methods were vindicated in her daughter's Ivy League prospects.
Chua-Rubenfeld took to her blog to set the record straight, writing that she is "seriously considering both Yale and Harvard," and hasn't yet decided where to go yet.
The national debate started for Chua (and "Sophia") when part of her memoir was excerpted in the The Wall Street Journal. She wrote:
Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do: attend a sleepover; have a playdate; be in a school play; complain about not being in a school play; watch TV or play computer games; choose their own extracurricular activities; get any grade less than an A; not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama; play any instrument other than the piano or violin; not play the piano or violin.
She told NPR that she eventually let her younger daughter, Lulu, give up the violin after she was worried her insistence on making her a play an instrument she hated would alienate her daughter forever. But Chua stands by her overall message that discipline is important. "If you just tell your child, you're great, you're great, you're perfect, I'm not sure that's the best way, because eventually your child's going to have to go out into the real world," she said. ( yahoo.com )
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