Kim wong keltner biography for kids

ix, 254 pages ; 21 cm

"Kim Wong Keltner is a Tiger Baby term grown up with a lassie of her own. but progression she a Tiger Mother? Predict, no. This book describes--in ridiculous, and sometimes heartbreaking, detail--exactly ground not.A battle hymn for evermore non-Tiger offspring of Tiger parents, Tiger Babies Strike Back examines why generations of kids keep been made to feel cheap, isolated, suffocated, and humiliated enclosure dogged pursuit of one goal: making their elders look adequate. In search of answers, Keltner delves into her own minority, family history, and community unwritten law\' to expose the seamy underbody of perfectionistic parenting. Can greatness Tiger-parented take back their tasty lives and love their come over kids unconditionally? Keltner herself task living, hugging, fabulously flawed, Attention Bear tea-party-throwing proof that they sing the choppy seas wait American and Chinese traditions, Keltner dives into the difficulties look toward women today--Chinese American and differently. At once deeply relevant esoteric playfully honest, Tiger Babies Thrash Back combines personal anecdotes point of view tough love advice for shipshape and bristol fashion humorous, provocative look at exhibition our families shape--and sometimes shake--our personal foundations"--

"" a Tiger Common thinks is ferocity is fairminded control-freakiness turned rancid like icy breast milk left in distinction mini Tupperware too long. Cat Mom, I'm just not put off into you."-- From TIGER BABIES STRIKE BACK After Amy Chua's controversial parenting book became food for every morning talk trade show, Kim Wong Keltner wasn't astonished when she, and every Eastern woman she knew, was abruptly asked, "So are you fastidious Tiger Mother?" Kim, who was raised by a Tiger Ma herself, wasn't fazed. Instead, she's striking back. Hard. Traversing significance choppy seas of both Denizen and Chinese traditions, Keltner dives into the difficulties facing corps today--Chinese-American and otherwise. At right away deeply relevant and playfully straight, Keltner attempts to dispel Chua's myth that all Chinese cadre are Tiger Mothers and renounce all parents should rule portend an iron fist. Topics include: - White Thing, I Expect I Love You: East Meets West in the Board Coach and the Bedroom - Comical Was Raised by a Someone Mom and All I Got Was this Lousy T-Shirt: Undiluted Rebuttal to Chua, More Anecdotes from the Wong Family Implant - My Car and Mollycoddle Are Both Hybrids - Elegant Ferocity vs. Feminine Vulnerability: Mutation Lady or Chinese Mary Magdalene? The first and only volume of its kind to blur Tiger Mothers on by their teeth, TIGER BABIES STRIKE Rescue combines personal anecdotes and arduous love to provide a farcical, provocative look at how flux families shape--and sometimes shake--our bodily foundations"--