But there were at least two more articles that I wanted to include in my overview of the responses:
- David Brooks's "Amy Chua is a Wimp" was a striking title, and essay, given the relative rigidity and brutality of her approach to parenting, but his argument is that she protects her kids from the hardest part of childhood and growing up: other children.
- Huang Hong, a journalist in China, writes about the culture behind Chua's "Chinese" parenting, from the glorification of suffering, the status of women dependent on their children, and the tradition of lack of individual rights in China. She also counters, "It is ironic that as young Chinese mothers in Beijing and Shanghai are embracing more enlighted Western ideas about child raising, mothers from Connecticut are sinking deeper into China’s darker past in child rearing."
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