With all the hype surrounding the opening of “The Hunger Games,” it wouldn’t be surprising if your 7-year-old was as psyched to see the dystopian sci-fi drama as your mother-in-law.
But the “games” of the title here spotlight kid-on-kid homicide, so choosing this PG-13-rated film as a date with your youngster might not be the best...
NEW DELHI — Stay-at-home mom Swati Rastogi watched her daughter Krisha play with plastic monkeys as son Dhruva lined up model cars in their two-bedroom apartment surrounded by Hindi and English alphabet posters.
Three-year-old Dhruva asked whether Pakistan is part of India. He was informed that it’s not. “I don’t know where that comes...
Un partie: Stop the presses! Two weeks ago, I reviewed and commented upon Pamela Druckerman’s book “Bringing Up Bebe,” in which she makes the claim that French parents, on the whole, raise children who are much more well-behaved, and at earlier ages, than their American counterparts.
Now arises the question: Did Druckerman do what so...
Last year, a Chinese-American Tiger Mother told American parents how to raise children who will make straight A’s and play Carnegie Hall before they reach puberty.
This year, the French are showing us how to raise children who will obey, throw few if any tantrums, and sit quietly in restaurants, listening while adults talk about adult...
If you have only heard about “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” and decided you hated it, the Tiger Mother has a request: Read it. All of it. And then decide.
The memoir, a global best-seller that has prompted anger, scorn and vitriolic emails, is Amy Chua’s account of raising her two daughters “the Chinese way.”
Chua, a law...
