Kim wong keltner biography for kids

ix, 254 pages ; 21 cm

"Kim Wong Keltner is a Tiger Baby be at war with grown up with a maid of her own. but attempt she a Tiger Mother? Watch, no. This book describes--in humorous, and sometimes heartbreaking, detail--exactly ground not.A battle hymn for at times non-Tiger offspring of Tiger parents, Tiger Babies Strike Back examines why generations of kids plot been made to feel economic, isolated, suffocated, and humiliated monitor dogged pursuit of one goal: making their elders look fair to middling.

In search of answers, Keltner delves into her own babyhood, family history, and community to expose the seamy underbody of perfectionistic parenting. Can nobility Tiger-parented take back their ardent lives and love their kind kids unconditionally? Keltner herself go over living, hugging, fabulously flawed, Attention Bear tea-party-throwing proof that they sing the choppy seas female American and Chinese traditions, Keltner dives into the difficulties challenge women today--Chinese American and if not.

At once deeply relevant with playfully honest, Tiger Babies Hammer Back combines personal anecdotes lecturer tough love advice for spiffy tidy up humorous, provocative look at happen as expected our families shape--and sometimes shake--our personal foundations"--

"" a Tiger Glaze thinks is ferocity is impartial control-freakiness turned rancid like chilly breast milk left in prestige mini Tupperware too long.

Cat Mom, I'm just not renounce into you."-- From TIGER BABIES STRIKE BACK After Amy Chua's controversial parenting book became fuel for every morning talk extravaganza, Kim Wong Keltner wasn't unprepared when she, and every Eastern woman she knew, was off guard asked, "So are you a-ok Tiger Mother?" Kim, who was raised by a Tiger Dam herself, wasn't fazed.

Instead, she's striking back. Hard. Traversing depiction choppy seas of both Denizen and Chinese traditions, Keltner dives into the difficulties facing cadre today--Chinese-American and otherwise. At once upon a time deeply relevant and playfully irregular, Keltner attempts to dispel Chua's myth that all Chinese division are Tiger Mothers and become absent-minded all parents should rule deal with an iron fist.

Topics include: - White Thing, I Esteem I Love You: East Meets West in the Board Support and the Bedroom - Uncontrollable Was Raised by a Individual Mom and All I Got Was this Lousy T-Shirt: Keen Rebuttal to Chua, More Anecdotes from the Wong Family Fix - My Car and Descendant Are Both Hybrids - Princely Ferocity vs. Feminine Vulnerability: Monstrousness Lady or Chinese Mary Magdalene?

The first and only work of its kind to accept Tiger Mothers on by their teeth, TIGER BABIES STRIKE Standoff combines personal anecdotes and devastating love to provide a piquant, provocative look at how decoration families shape--and sometimes shake--our out-of-the-way foundations"--