My Life As a Tiger Cub Mom

While I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I was raised by a “tiger mom” — the kind made famous by Amy Chua’s Wall Street Journal article, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” — I am a child of Asian (Korean) immigrant parents who raised me to achieve great academic heights, or at least as great as possible. After getting a master’s degree, I remember my dad saying he’d pay for me to go get a Ph.D. “To study what?” I asked. He shrugged — what I studied didn’t seem to matter so much as adding a few more letters after my name.

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Summer Camp and the Curse Of the Alpha Parent

Happy Springtime!

It’s been a looong time since last I posted. The blog is currently on hiatus while I focus more on my consulting work. So for now, I’ll post links to my new column on City’s Best – DC (part of the Huffington Post Media Group). There, I write on parenting issues with a Washington DC angle. Is there a parenting issue on which you’d like to dish or for which you need some local research? Let me know! I’m all ears.

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