[quote=flu]With all due respect, she’s the one that’s going to be making a few millions off of this…[/quote]
No duh, flu, if you read my earlier post on this thread:
Submitted by bearishgurl on January 15, 2011 – 2:12pm.
I listened to Chua and her husband’s short NPR interview. Both sound like they’re on the same page with parenting and both are extremely eloquent. (Both have JD’s, duh!!) Chua doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously in the interview, seems “well-balanced” and insists the book is a “memoir,” not a “how-to guide.”
I agree with Chua on one major issue. That is, kids do not need their parent(s) to be their “friends” while they are developing discipline. They already have all their school buddies, their 387 myspace “friends” and their 423 facebook “friends.” That’s enough folks to keep track of for one kid :=!
I think she will sell a lot of books. Sensationalism sells. Also, her daughters are 15 and 18 now so it is apparent that they both survived the early “abuse” that Westerners will say they had to endure. Chua and her husband will be laughing all the way to the bank in the coming months.
I think Chua is one of THE sharpest tools in the shed. She and her “agree-to-disagree” spouse, “Jed,” make a good pair. They will be laughing all the way to the bank for months (and years, with royalties) to come.
I applaud her moxie, entrepreneurialism, (is that a word??), and ability to choose sufficiently controversial and compelling subject matter to appeal to the masses.
