But Sophia’s achievement may have little to do with her mother’s parenting, or the work ethic she supposedly prized. And on Monday, she had a new accomplishment to announce: a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.įor aspiring lawyers, Supreme Court clerkships are highly desirable - they’re tickets to positions at the best firms, or the first step in a career that may someday culminate in the clerk’s own judgeship. Sophia, the oldest, graduated from Yale Law School just last year. Her daughters ascended the ranks of American excellence and attended Ivy League schools. Nearly ten years after the publication of her book, it looked like Chua’s methods worked. But all the pushing, all the rules, all those inordinately high expectations, stemmed from one impulse: she wanted her daughters to succeed - to become accomplished musicians and star students, the sort of people who scale the heights of America’s meritocracy. In the book, Chua relates the episode as a prelude of parenting battles to come as a mom, she says she was a harsh taskmaster, prone to excesses she occasionally regrets. Lulu was banished for an act of musical overenthusiasm she kept smashing keys on the piano, while her mother wanted her to press one at a time. In her controversial 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale law professor Amy Chua admits that she once sent her toddler daughter Lulu to stand outside in 20-degree weather wearing only a skirt and a sweater.
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