![]() ![]() But then, as Chua admits herself, she rarely reflects. She simply cannot understand what was wrong. That was how Chua was brought up, and she was a great success – getting into Yale Law School and becoming a professor there, with a clever and loving husband and two equally clever children. Still, her defeat made her pause and take a step back.ĭoes she have regrets? She admits that she had moments of self-doubt, as when she suddenly felt a pang for Sophia, running home from school with an armful of books to have time for piano practice. I hate you, and I hate this family!" Chua did not mind her daughters hating her as she constantly reminds them, her job is "to prepare you for the future – not to make you like me". ![]() Why can't you get that through your head? I hate the violin. Worse, she openly challenged her mother in public, screaming: "I don't want to be Chinese. She simply refused to obey, a huge crime for Chinese kids. It paid off: I came high enough in the National Exam to get a place at Beijing University, the best in China.īut Chua's Chinese parenting backfired when her younger daughter Lulu cracked under her mother's non-stop pressure. Apart from seven hours' sleep, all my waking moments were consumed by study – I did not even come to the table until my food was lukewarm, so I could gulp it down quickly and get back to work. ![]() I remember my own upbringing in the city of Handan, in central China. ![]()
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