Summary Of Lion Tiger Mom

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TThe article “lion, tigers, and bear moms-oh, my!” was written by Hilary Levey friedman. Professor Hilary is a sociologist and expert on beauty pageants, childhood and parenting. She holds degree from Harvard University. The article was about the best selling book Amy Chua wrote “Tiger mom” and how other people view about her parenting strategies. Chua was a hard working mother and her parenting practices were very different to others. According to the author, Chua called her daughters trash when they did not perform up to her expectation, forced them to practice their instrument for at least three hours a day, and not let them to have dinner if they did not performed well. There were definitely many people disagreed on the parenting practices

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