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Being a "Tiger Mom" apparently pays off. Credit: MTC
Seems all that time spent not hanging out with pals, going to sleepovers and watching TV has landed Sophia Chua-Robenfeld spots at Harvard and Yale, NPR reports.
Chua, you may recall, is the Yale professor and author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," chronicling her Confucian child-rearing techniques.
But Chua-Robenfeld hasn't made her decision just yet, according to the Yale Daily News.
"Having you as a mother was no tea party," Chua-Robenfeld previously wrote in a letter to the New York Post defending her mother. "There were some play dates I wish I'd gone to and some piano camps I wish I'd skipped. But now that I'm 18 and about to leave the tiger den, I'm glad you and Daddy raised me the way you did."
The Chicago Tribune blog "Raising Coconuts" calls the news "vindication."
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4-06-2011 @ 3:47PM
Barbara said...Congrats! Good going mom and dad!
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4-06-2011 @ 4:20PM
KC said...So she's the only one who ever got into Yale and Harvard? Good for her; congratulations are certainly in order, but Yale and Harvard have students who didn't have Tiger Moms too. It's disingenuous to suggest she got in because of her mother's parenting style.
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4-06-2011 @ 6:34PM
isisreptiles said...I think it's great that she got into Harvard, but there are plenty of people who get in who had all different kinds of parenting. To say she got in because of how she was parented is just ridiculous.
Personally I think it's a lot more important to raise a child who will be a happy and well-adjusted adult than it is to raise an over-achiever. And I can't imagine anyone who had that kind of parenting growing up happy and well-adjusted.
That girl had nothing resembling a normal childhood, and I think she is going to be in for some serious problems and a lot of unhappiness in her adult life because of it, as is the case with most people who had dysfunctional parenting. Abusive parenting is not healthy parenting, and the parenting she received was abusive as far as I'm concerned. No matter what she ever does, I doubt that it will ever be enough or good enough to please that horrible mother of hers. If she's really smart, she will cut all ties as soon as possible.
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4-06-2011 @ 8:47PM
Heather said...Wow, she got into Harvard. I know someone who apllied there and got in but couldn't get into Universtiy of Toronto. Does that mean thier standards a lower? Probably not. What really impresses me is the homeless teen who got into Harvard.
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