{"id":8462,"date":"2011-04-19T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:04:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-19T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:04:28","slug":"-Tiger-Mom-daughter-starts-a-blog-heads-to-Ivies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=8462","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tiger Mom\u2019 daughter starts a blog, heads to Ivies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>America&#8217;s best-known &#8220;Tiger Mother,&#8221; Yale Law Professor Amy Chua, may soon face some literary competition from her daughter.  High school senior Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, who along with her younger sister is featured in their mother&#8217;s book advocating an intensely strict mode of parenting, started a blog earlier this month called &#8220;New Tiger in Town,&#8221; where she sounds off on some of the controversy around her family. (Chua, whose memoir &#8220;Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother&#8221; came out in January, says she&#8217;s even received death threats for her parenting stance. NPR talked to a panel of mothers who were &#8220;horrified&#8221; at the restrictions Chua said she placed on her children.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the whole world&#8217;s calling you a mindless robot, you kind of get the urge to start talking!&#8221; Chua-Rubenfeld writes of why she started the blog. &#8220;Even though &#8216;Sophia&#8217; in the book is much more impressive than Sophia in real life. I think I&#8217;m sullying my impeccable image one post at a time, but so be it.&#8221;  The accomplished pianist jokes that she hopes to &#8220;sleep all day, rave all night. Learn by osmosis,&#8221; while at college. She also published a lively and funny defense of her mother in the New York Post. &#8220;One problem is that some people don&#8217;t get your humor,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;They think you&#8217;re serious about all this, and they assume Lulu and I are oppressed by our evil mother. That is so not true. Every other Thursday, you take off our chains and let us play math games in the basement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The blog Above the Law first reported on April 1 that Chua-Rubenfeld was accepted to both Harvard and Yale (and planned to attend Harvard). The post was titled the post &#8220;Tiger Mom Triumphant,&#8221; suggesting that Chua&#8217;s controversial child-rearing methods were vindicated in her daughter&#8217;s Ivy League prospects.  Chua-Rubenfeld took to her blog to set the record straight, writing that she is &#8220;seriously considering both Yale and Harvard,&#8221; and hasn&#8217;t yet decided where to go yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_thelookout\/20110419\/us_yblog_thelookout\/tiger-mom-daughter-starts-a-blog-heads-to-ivies\" title=\"SOURCE\">SOURCE<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s best-known &#8220;Tiger Mother,&#8221; Yale Law Professor Amy Chua, may soon face some literary competition from her daughter. 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