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Tiger Mothers or Elephant Mothers?

Yale Law Professor Amy Chua's recent paean to what she describes as the Chinese "tiger" style of mothering has stirred debate worldwide. But do we really want to live in a world of solitary tigers who have been rigorously trained to think only of themselves?

MELBOURNE – Many years ago, my wife and I were driving somewhere with our three young daughters in the back, when one of them suddenly asked: “Would you rather that we were clever or that we were happy?”

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