Chinese parenting is one of the most difficult things I can think of. You have to be hated sometimes by someone you love and who hopefully loves you, and there's just no letting up, no point at which it suddenly becomes easy. Just the opposite, Chinese parenting-at least if you're trying to do it in America, where all odds are against you-is a never-ending uphill battle, requiring a 24-7 time commitment, resilience, and guile."
-Amy Chua
This month we are reading Amy Chua's account of how she elected to educate and raise her children in a manner that she felt would empower her daughters with the appropriate skills and tools to excel as adults. The clip below provides you with a little more insight (in addition to the Time magazine article on the home page) into her thinking. While at times contravercial and the topic of great debate, the overarching question I pose to you as we discuss the content of this book is:
Question: How can we as stakeholders (administrators, teachers and of course parents) steadily raise expectations, increase levels of rigor and build relational capacity to equip our scholars with the ability to engage in higher order, confident, self-directed learning? Our hope is that reading and discussing this book will enable us to wrestle with some of our thoughts and ideas.
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