Archive for February, 2011

“Stop Kissing the Baby” and Other Judgements

February 7, 2011

All the “tiger mother” talk has left me wondering: if I were to write a memoir about how I parent, would anyone bother picking up the book, let alone publish an excerpt in a major newspaper?

Very likely, no. For one thing, what I do is fairly common and not at all provocative. More important, perhaps, my children are still very young. They, and I, are works in progress. So I can’t judge how I’m doing and am thus uncertain about how the book would end.

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