From the Daughter of Tiger Mom
Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, offspring of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother author Amy Chua, has started a blog to address questions about her upbringing.
Q: If your mother prevented you from going on play dates, sleep overs and participating in school dramas, shouldn’t you have turned out to be socially incapable?
A: Thanks for asking – I’ve wanted to address this point since David Brooks published his op-Ed in the NYT. Let me indulge my not-so-inner nerd for a second: when you spend 7 hours at school a day, 180 days a year, for 13 years, you rack up 16,380 hours of social interaction. That’s the equivalent of over 3,200 five-hour playdates. So overall, I don’t feel too deprived.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
April 22nd, 2011 at 13:12
Added her to my Google Reader. Thanks for the link. I love reading her thoughts. :)
April 28th, 2011 at 08:55
She seems like a normal, well-adjusted kid who doesn’t take herself so seriously. Cute + smart + sense of humor + humility = Uberbabe
Anyway, her mom has been named one of Time’s 100 for this year:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2066367_2066369_2066449,00.html
I love re-watching her interviews at Berkeley.