Hi Alice,

Have you read the 'Tiger Mom' Chinese-American's bestseller about how she tried to groom her daughter into a violin superstar by refusing her sleepovers, forcing her to practice hours a day, rejected her girls' birthday cards as not hard-enough worked on etc?

Is this woman sick or what?..

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