This originally appeared in The Huffington Post’s Culture Section. Write a bad mommy confessional and be rewarded with multiple weeks on bestseller lists, riches, and fame/infamy. (See: Chua, Amy [Tiger Mom]; Druckerman, Pamela [American mom, French parenting]; Weiss, Dara-Lynn [Diet Devil in Vogue]). And then there are the television shows. In the grand tradition of [...]
A piece I wrote on the aftermath of the Tiger Mom Amy Chua controversy recently appeared in Contexts– a sociology magazine for the general public. Hope you enjoy it and would love to here what you think! On January 25, 2011, Stephen Colbert announced, “My guest tonight is a Yale professor who has written a [...]
This originally appeared on The Huffington Post on April 1, 2011. Note that the same day my piece was posted, news broke that Amy Chua’s eldest daughter, Sophia, was admitted to the Harvard class of ’15 (during the most competitive admissions cycle in Harvard’s history, with a 6.2% admit rate); Sophia will be matriculating in [...]
I know what you are thinking: “Another Tiger Mom post?! What could anyone possibly add to that discussion at this point?” I generally agree, so I’ll be brief. Last week as I was checking out at CVS, this cover caught my eye. What I found most interesting was the smaller headline at the top: “Health [...]
What better way to kick off my blog than by sharing my thoughts on a discussion about competitive parenting by a Harvard economist held at a somewhat-snotty/secretive academic meetings? I know a bit about all of these subjects– in one way or another. Yesterday the WSJ ran an interesting piece on a Davos discussion panel [...]
