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Meh. For a law school professor, her ability to reason seems a bit suspect. Her article seemed like a combination of vague summaries of studies she once read (uncited, of course) and anecdotes. It would be interesting to see a study comparing child rearing strategies by child achievement among native Chinese. I suspect that among "Chinese Mothers" there is more variation than she's letting on even without the aspersions about westerners.
What she's really talking about seems to be the difference in parenting strategies between native westerners and recently immigrated foreign professionals.
As for parenting in general, I think that it is important to be strict about certain things, but not others.
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