In her response to Chua's piece, Waldman, author of 'The Mommy-Track Mysteries' series of novels and the wife of best-selling novelist Michael Chabon, jokingly tells of allowing her children to quit the piano and the violin to spare her from attending boring recitals while letting them sleep over at their friend's houses to save money on babysitters.

6 slot in the Amazon sales rankings on Tuesday, the day it was released. The first Wall Street Journal piece, which took excerpts from Chua's parenting memoir 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,' ignited a heated debate across the Internet, with critics claiming that the book advocates abusive parenting, while others asserted that it would lead to xenophobia and feed China haters.Īided by the controversy, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother' reached the No. Waldman's essay humorously outlines differences between what she sees as the lackadaisical approach taken by western mothers and the strict regimen Chinese mothers use on their children that Chua discusses. The controversy over Chua's book, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,' heated up further on Saturday when Ayelet Waldman, a Jewish author and mother, responded with her essay, entitled 'In Defense of the Guilty, Ambivalent, Preoccupied Western Mom.' 'My book is a memoir, not a parenting book! I think there are many ways to raise great kids,' Chua said.

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