Sunday, November 27, 2011

December Bookclub

Our book for December is Christmas Jars by: Jason Wright. We will be meeting on Dec 15th @ Kris Tolman's home at 7pm. Bring a Christmas treat to share.
We need volunteers to host and choose books for next year. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE sign up... Unless you all want to read textbooks like I am right now.
Any book, any genre, any length... We could all pick a favorite Dr. Seuss book to share; or favorite picture book... I am serious now.
Choose a book or we will all be learning about Human Anatomy. :)

Tiger Mother

Amy Chua
So are you a tiger mother? Reading Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mother made each of us look at how we mother and how culture affects our parenting. Certainly being a full blown "tiger" isn't the goal of most of us but certain attributes are worthy of praise.
Pushing your kids to acheive their goals---good thing.
Turning down birthday card because it's not "perfect"--not so good.
Having high expectations-- good thing.
Torturing yourself and your kids for the sake of results--not good.
Although we may feel that some of the attributes of the Tiger/Chinese Mother border on abuse I am pretty certain that they may perceive things that we do as bordering on neglect.
If nothing else Amy Chua's observations opened our eyes to the differences that make the Tiger parents successful.
Thanks so much to Martha Taylor for choosing this book and to her daughter Meghan also. Thanks also to Heather Staples for being such a gracious hostess.