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If Books Could Kill

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Arts, Politics, Books, Society & Culture, News

4.68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A memoir about parenting very badly and then getting weirdly defensive when anyone asks you about it.Where to find us: Peter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSources:Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior, Child DevelopmentTypes of Parenting Styles and Effects On ChildrenDoes “Tiger Parenting” Exist? Parenting Profiles of Chinese Americans and Adolescent Developmental OutcomesAssociations of parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing...

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0:00.0

The acoustics at your new place are different. They're like tinier.

0:03.2

Well, I'm in the, uh, I'm in a little booth.

0:07.1

Oh, you're in like a little Superman phone booth?

0:09.6

I'm in a little thing, yeah.

0:11.1

I'm talking into one at least.

0:13.0

Yeah, you're missing the dulcetones of your previous place.

0:15.1

We're not going to get those emails anymore asking about your status.

0:18.0

No, that's on that's on you.

0:20.0

You got to you have to...

0:21.0

It's up to me to make one person on this podcast sound sexy.

0:25.0

Look, I don't tell you what to do with your own voice, but you got to make mine hot.

0:30.0

All right. Michael.

0:32.0

Peter. What do you know about the Battle Him of the Tiger

0:35.7

Mother? We already learned from Malcolm Gladwell that it takes 10,000 hours to

0:39.6

become an expert at something, but this was the book that taught Americans.

0:42.8

You can also become an expert by someone else yelling at you for 10,000 hours. All right, the book, Michael is is The Battle Him of the Tiger Mother by Amy Cho.

1:06.1

Yes. She was a Yale law professor and an author who had written a couple of relatively

1:11.5

popular international affairs books, but this was her first brush with like mainstream success and notoriety.

1:19.6

The book is styled as sort of a memoir where she is recalling raising her two daughters under a strict

1:26.8

parenting regime that she calls Tiger parenting or alternately Chinese parenting.

1:33.0

The book came out in 2011 and it caused a pretty big stir.

1:38.0

I will say as a basic methodological principle,

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