competition will be the countries that have the most educated workers. well now comes a new book that s going to shake everybody up. it s on parenting by a chinese-american mother whose approach to raising her daughters might remind you of mommy dearest. her kids are superstars, but her treatment is so severe. they couldn t have sleepovers, they couldn t have play dates. they couldn t be in a school play. they had to get an a. they weren t the number one in every subject except in gym and drama. they were in trouble. she calls herself a tiger mother and the method is on time s cover story. is a this what america wants or needs? we have michelle bernard, msnbc political analyst, and kelly wallace, chief correspondent for ivillage. michelle bernard, do you want to be mommy dearest? does the end justify the means. does terrorizing the kid if he gets a b a virtuoso piano
a professor s extreme technique has trigger ready a national debate. you know you re an extreme parent if. we ll have plenty of stories to help you fill in the blank as we begin with lat% su who was raised by his vietnamese father. he has a very different take on what it s like to endure that kind of tough upbringing. any love yous are no white people, he describes the abuse the name calling and the stress of it this style of traditional asian child bearing. he joins me live from san diego. first, why don t we describe raised by a tiger mom. what does that mean to you? being raised by a tiger mother to me means as a child i
chaz. we ve been preparing a series for this week called extreme parenting, when out of the blue a woman who calls herself a tiger mother blasted onto the scene literally. this chinese american law professor s memoir about her ultrastrict parenting techniques las triggered a national debate and led cnn to try to define extreme parenting. basically you know you re an extreme parent if, well, we ll have plenty of stories to fill in the blanks and some parenting experts as our guides. that said, we began with a look at athletic training for teeny tiny tots. christine romans has more. it gives new meaning to the term training your toddler. sports training for the diaper set. according to woman you re about to meet, you can never start sports training too soon.
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right after the midterm elections, it s pretty remarkable. he was in the low o40s right after the midterms and now 53% according to the latest wall street journal poll and i think that s a good place for the president to be. it s worthy of a b plus. the c is because of where the economy is right now. 15 million still unemployed and unemployment higher than 9% still. i think that although the president, you know, did inherit a lot of the mess right here, he owns this economy right now. all right, susan, you could not get above a c for this president. just like jon. foreign policy a d, incomplete on bipartisanship, leadership a c, what s going on in your eyes? i was grading like a tiger mother, right? i think if the economy, in particular, a c minus because i think that while people are starting to feel more positive about the economy looking forward, if we look back to the last two years and where we are today, really, a lot of these