Mommie Dearest

And the Mother of the Year award goes to Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School and author, who believes holding dictatorial control over and instilling massive insecurity in one’s child is the best way to raise them. In fact, it’s this method of child rearing – which she says is the “Chinese” way of doing things – that she accredits for producing so many successful Chinese children. She just wrote (a completely insane) an article in the Wall Street Journal, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”, an excerpt from her new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which comes out tomorrow.

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