Your take: good parenting
Amy Chua’s Wall Street Journal article about being a Chinese mother has gotten the Takeaway community talking. Is her strict parenting style good for children? One listener writes, “Like Ms. Chua, I am a Chinese mother, born in Manila from Chinese parents. But… unlike Ms. Chua, I vowed to be a different Chinese mother, and encouraged my daughter to enjoy all the activities my mother prohibited.”
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