文档介绍：Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother? Not Quite! How Other Cultures Inform My Teaching Amy Chua’s controversial “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” a book about her Chinese- American parenting, and her daughters’ violin and piano lessons, roused bitter debate when it was published in 2011, mostly by people who only read about it. There were sensational talking points: Amy threatened to burn her child’s stuffed animals if she didn’t practice! She followed her nine-year-old’s 3-hour violin lesson with a one-hour practice block! She gave back a birthday card she’d received from her daughter because it wasn’t good enough! Because I teach mostly Asian students, and because I speak two Asian languages, I was very eager to read what she had to say about helping her daughters to learn piano and violin, and, despite the negative hype, to see if she had any valuable ideas to add to my multi-cultural pool of teaching knowledge. Ms. Chua chose a tongue-in-cheek-yet-serious writing style to describe her experiences as the “home music teacher” of two children---particularly with her younger daughter Louisa, “Lulu,” who always shone at her teacher’s recitals, and was always asked by admiring audience members if she was hoping to e a professional violinist. “They had no idea about the bloodbath practice sessions back home, where Lulu and I fought like jungle beasts,” she wrote. “I felt that I was in a race against time. Children in China practice ten hours a day. ..Every year some new seven-year-old from Latvia or Croatia wins an petition… Besides, I was already at a disadvantage because I had an American husband who believed that childhood should be fun.” And so begins a detailed saga of her younger daughter Lulu’s violin studies, and her older daughter Sofia’s work with the piano. Despite the seeming harshness of her approach to home practicing, Chua had some very good ideas. She made it her business to know about violin and violin teaching through extensi