Book #10

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
23 pages in
Nonfiction
So I haven't read much of this book yet but it is really interesting so far. It's about this woman, Amy Chua, who has two daughters, Sophia and Lulu, and she is raising them like the Chinese raise their kids... very strictly. The girls have never been to a sleepover, have a playdate, been in a school play, watched TV or play computer games, get anything less than an A, and choose their own extracurricular activities, just to name a few. She is the daughter of two Chinese immigrants and feels that the Chinese way of raising kids is the best. When Lulu was three Amy tried to teach her piano, because Sophia knew the alphabet in just a year, but Lulu wanted to slam on the piano like any other three year old. Amy didn't like that Lulu wasn't doing what she wanted so she stuck Lulu outside in the twenty degree weather to teach her a leason. Horrible isn't it? Mrs. K, the librarian who lent me this book, says Amy does way worse things to the girls, I can't wait to see what happens. This book has been in the news lately because people are criticizing Amy for what she wrote about and what shes done. She calls herself the Tiger Mother because she was born in the year of the Tiger and they are noble, fearless, powerful, authoritative, and magnetic, and they are supposed to be lucky. We'll see about that though.