What would you do-ABC: Would you confront a Tiger Mother?

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Turning soup making into a game for kids By Casey Seidenberg WASHINGTON POST

Casey Seidenberg, a mother of two young boys, blog about her method of productive competition between her boys. To summarize, the competition could be called, "The Soup Wars." This is when each of the boys would pick a specific soup recipe and fill out a chart in order to decide who has won more recipes by the end of the day. This tactic would be highly praised and accepted by Jim Fay and  Foster Cline, the authors of "Parenting with Love & Logic."
According to Fay and Cline, they quote through their book: "Parents win because they love in a healthy way and establish control over their kids without resorting to the anger and threats that encourage rebellious teenage behaviors. Kids win because they learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. Thus they acquire the tools for coping with the real world. Parents and kids can establish a rewarding relationship built on love and trust in the process (Fay and Cline page 20)."
The tactics of Casey Seidenberg matches Fay and Cline's expectations perfectly. According to the book, Casey uses a great strategy in order to feed her child's competitive nature, understand more about responsibility, and have fun at the same time. The more fun they have, the more they bond with each other and stay closer to their family.
Casey wrote this blog solely to share her experience of raising her kids. She wants to show how she creatively raises her kids and advises people on ways parents can help their child with responsibility by simply creating a fun, desirable atmosphere. Therefore, in Casey's case, she made a soup war that would bring the boys and her together through cooking, and at the same time, bring the kids to understand one another and enhance their need for responsibility.
The overall tone of the article was very obvious: Advising. This blog is mainly a guide book for new insecure parents who are trying to find newer methods to raise their kids.
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2011: Stories That Changed the Way We Parent Now By KJ DELL’ANTONIA NYTIMES

KJ dell'antonia references Amy Chua's, "The Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mother" in her article in order to enhance her main point and thesis.
KJ's title of the article says all: "Stories that Changed the Way We Parent Now."
KJ basically describes how cases like Amy Chua, is a great example of how NOT to be a parent.  KJ criticized, and pointed out the flaws in Chua's parenting techniques as she quoted indesirable quotes throughout her book.
Throughout her entire article, KJ also uses many different references of controversial books, articles, quotes, and events that has created a shock in the American parenting world.
This article obviously has one purpose: To inform the readers that observing the ways others respond to things could very well be our answer on how we "shouldn't" respond to things.
KJ states in her article,
 "The important articles made us confront the way we do things, the way we think about things and sometimes even who we are, with our families and everywhere else. Here, in no particular order, are the five subjects from 2011 that I’m still thinking about (and may still be thinking about when we revisit this topic 12 months from now)"
The journalist did a great job of researching many different materials that related around the area of Child Psychology, Meaning: The benefit of the kids.
I felt like she was asking the readers, "How could we as a whole, improve on the ways we raise our own children?"
The best answer to that is I feel through the article: By Watching/Learning from Mistakes or other peoples' mistakes.
This article thoroughly explained how the year of 2011 has much to learn after the unwise incidences revolving around our responsibility and nurtured love for our children.
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Terrible Swift Tongue by Susan Dominus NEW YORK TIMES

Susan Dominus, a staff writer for NYT, intended to write a simple Book Review for "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." Dominus agreed that the book was "Harsh" as the many readers viewed it as. However, she also agreed that Amy Chua, a respectable Yale Law Professor, writing a personal memoir about her parenting life, was brave and awe-inspiring. Dominus wanted to express her admiration for Chua's bravery in expressing her pride in her parenting and she wanted the other readers to understand that this book wasn't meant to hurt or criticize anyone. It was simply, "A story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs" (Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Amy Chua).
Dominus also pointed out the fact that Sophia, Amy's eldest daughter, wrote a letter to her parents expressing her gratitude to her parents both Jeb (her father) and Amy (her mother.) Meaning she appreciated both of them, despite the hard times, she admited openly that she wouldn't want to be raised any other way. Dominus mentioned this by writing, "The last thing the reader wants to hear is that Chua-Rubenfeld, as she wrote in that charming letter to her mother that ran in The Post, is “glad you and Daddy raised me the way you did"(Dominus NYT.com).
The tone throughout the article was obvious. Dominus was simply reviewing the book. She believed the things written in the book was harsh and unecessary as the other readers viewed it as, however she also believed that Chua showed much bravery for writing a book about her personal life despite her position as a Law Professor.

Amy Chua is a Wimp by David Brooks NEW YORK TIMES

David Brooks, a journalist from The New York Times Magazine, recently wrote an article responding to Amy Chua's book, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." The title itself makes the article's point perfectly clear. David Brooks throughout his article, openly admitted that he loved Amy Chua's book. He appreciated her sense of humor and style. However, he did not appreciate the way she raised her kids. David Brooks wrote this article for one good reason: To prove a point. He wanted to look through both views, the views of the reader, and the view of Amy herself. However, he had to admit that he agreed with the opinions of the readers. For example, he critiqued Amy's parenting style by saying,  "So I’m not against the way Chua pushes her daughters. And I loved her book as a courageous and thought-provoking read. It’s also more supple than her critics let on. I just wish she wasn’t so soft and indulgent. I wish she recognized that in some important ways the school cafeteria is more intellectually demanding than the library. And I hope her daughters grow up to write their own books, and maybe learn the skills to better anticipate how theirs will be received"(Brooks NYT.com).
The subject is very obvious. Obviously, he is calling Amy an idiot. Not because of her confidence in experessing her parenting style. Brooks claimed that wasn't the reason at all. He simply called her an idiot because she was sheltering her kids from being an intellectual indivitual. In other words, she was hiding her kids from experiencing what is very important. Brooks uses a humorous tone throughout the entire article, however he wrote many rhetorical shifts acknowledging his opinion on her parenting style by expressing his distaste for her arrogance and discriminations against western parenting.

But Will It All Make ‘Tiger Mom’ Happy? by Janet Maslin NEW YORK TIMES

According to Janet Maslin, a journalist from New York Times , Amy Chua's book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" created many contrevorsies and stalemates against the parenting styles of Westerners vs. the Easterners. Maslin wrote this article for a good reason. The idea that this book created such a contrevorsy in the US is the biggest reason enough. I felt this article was trying to paraphrase the whole book in order for the readers to understand the book's hidden meanings. For example, Maslin mentioned how Chua's book was supposively, "chronicles its author’s constant demanding, wheedling, scolding and screaming"(Maslin NYT.com).  I felt that Maslin wanted to "Let Amy off the hook" with her parenting book. I feel like she wanted to prove to the audience that Amy's book is not that bad as others think it is. Therefore, Maslin highly exaggerates throughout the whole article the idea that Amy's book was clearly a comedy rather than a book that should be taken literally. In other words, she wrote the article in a way it was supposed to sound funny just like Amy Chua's writing style herself throughout her memoir.