We started the semester talking (albeit briefly) about Tiger Moms, thanks to the media storm Amy Chua stirred up. This morning, courtesy of Yahoo! news, we have the Hiroshima mom:
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/the-opposite-of-a-tiger-mother-leaving-your-children-behind-2460982/
I hope that by the midpoint of the semester, we're getting very uncomfortable with judging women-as-mothers' choices (and it's my sense that we are). That said, this article is perfect for leading into our post-Spring Break readings: A Doll's House, The South, and The Hours!
On a related note, I'm more than a little disturbed by our propensity for discussing these very difficult parenting/mothering issues ONLY through a lens that relies on Asian labels -- I think that says something very telling about our own culture's inability to discuss honestly what it means to parent/mother a child.
