Her challenging goals for her two daughters were a picnic neither for them nor for her. President Obama is the evidently successful result of having had a Tiger Mother, the term made current by Amy Chua’s book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, in which the author describes her similarly exacting approach to motherhood. “This is no picnic for me either, buster.” I offered stiff resistance to this regimen, but in response to every strategy I concocted…she would patiently repeat her most powerful defense: In his memoir Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama tells us that when he was a boy in Indonesia, his motherįive days a week…came into my room at four in the morning, force-fed me breakfast, and proceeded to teach me my English lessons for three hours before I left for school and she left for work. Erin Patrice O’Brien for The Wall Street JournalĪmy Chua with her daughters Lulu and Sophia, New Haven, Connecticut, 2011
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