cminor7b5
01-18-2011, 08:15 AM
Not sure if anyone has read any articles on Amy Chua, the Yale law professor, who wrote a book on parenting Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, recounts raising her two daughters, now 15 and 18, using what she calls “Chinese parenting” methods.
Regardless of the actual content of the article, I thought Ms. Chua unwittingly uttered one of the most all-time, searing, put-downs of drummers.
She says in the article "There is a common pattern you’ll see: an Asian and a Western child will start with a violin; six months later the Western child will want to switch to the clarinet because the violin sounds terrible, and then four months later the clarinet turns out to be hard so their choice is the guitar, and then you’re at the drums."
The last part was a screen cleaner for me!:roll
Here's a link to the article: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/01/13/amy-chua-on-high-stakes-parenting/
Regardless of the actual content of the article, I thought Ms. Chua unwittingly uttered one of the most all-time, searing, put-downs of drummers.
She says in the article "There is a common pattern you’ll see: an Asian and a Western child will start with a violin; six months later the Western child will want to switch to the clarinet because the violin sounds terrible, and then four months later the clarinet turns out to be hard so their choice is the guitar, and then you’re at the drums."
The last part was a screen cleaner for me!:roll
Here's a link to the article: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/01/13/amy-chua-on-high-stakes-parenting/