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.
