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    #161858 - 07/09/13 05:17 AM Re: more on "Tiger Mom"... [Re: deacongirl]
    Bostonian Offline
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    Chua's book is not an advice manual, and sometimes you wonder if she is pulling your leg. An earnest advice manual written in 2005 by two Korean-American sisters (a doctor and a lawyer) is

    Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--and How You Can Too
    by Soo Kim Abboud and Jane Y. Kim .

    Someone recommended it on this forum. I think it has some good ideas. The sisters and their book were profiled in the following story:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/fashion/sundaystyles/16TOP.html
    Item: Sisters Think Parents Did O.K.
    By ALEX WILLIAMS
    New York Times
    October 16, 2005


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    #161859 - 07/09/13 05:52 AM Re: more on "Tiger Mom"... [Re: Bostonian]
    JonLaw Offline
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    Originally Posted By: Bostonian
    Chua's book is not an advice manual, and sometimes you wonder if she is pulling your leg. An earnest advice manual written in 2005 by two Korean-American sisters (a doctor and a lawyer) is

    Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--and How You Can Too
    by Soo Kim Abboud and Jane Y. Kim.


    I can raise high achievers, too.

    However, it's not worth what it costs.

    Neither a doctor nor a lawyer are likely to provide good examples of how to how to actually achieve except in the narrow realm of those professions.

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    #161860 - 07/09/13 05:55 AM Re: more on "Tiger Mom"... [Re: Bostonian]
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    Originally Posted By: Bostonian
    Friedman has a follow-up column that makes sense to me. People are irritated by Friedman for good reasons (he is a pompous name-dropper) but also for bad ones (he accepts that we live in a market economy).


    People become irritated with Friedman because whatever it is that he's writing will generally make you less able to deal with reality.

    If his writing was helpful, he could do all the pompous name-dropping he wanted to do.

    That's not his problem.

    His problem is that he can't actually think.

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    #161862 - 07/09/13 06:26 AM Re: more on "Tiger Mom"... [Re: JonLaw]
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    Originally Posted By: JonLaw
    Originally Posted By: Bostonian
    Chua's book is not an advice manual, and sometimes you wonder if she is pulling your leg. An earnest advice manual written in 2005 by two Korean-American sisters (a doctor and a lawyer) is

    Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--and How You Can Too
    by Soo Kim Abboud and Jane Y. Kim.


    I can raise high achievers, too.

    However, it's not worth what it costs.


    Neither a doctor nor a lawyer are likely to provide good examples of how to how to actually achieve except in the narrow realm of those professions.



    Lost in the Meritocracy addresses that nicely, however. Maybe that should also be on the reading list. wink



    Edited by HowlerKarma (07/09/13 06:26 AM)
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    #163367 - 07/31/13 12:02 PM Re: more on "Tiger Mom"... [Re: deacongirl]
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    JonLaw, Couldn't have said it better myself. Bravo.

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