<p>OK
G’s school link
it is another country
30K plus for day school. times two times what, 7-10 years since they settled in NH?
why do I even bother try to understand anything? </p>
<p>I mean I see them 30K plus kids in Upper East every day, but they are so not tiger cubs more like lady gaga…</p>
<p>“It is this wanting, needing to connect that make this country great, is what I thought.”</p>
<p>Yes, bears! Isn’t Google the plum job that everyone is after in the tech field? Would they really want to hire a straight A but all-out-for-me type? Or a slightly flawed creative genius in old jeans who loves to brainstorm in a group? Of course it’s not all that simple, but I remember seeing some tiger cubs on certain school tours we took and they scared me. Not because I was so impressed with them, but because I wouldn’t want to have to coexist with them and certainly didn’t want my kids driven crazy by them.</p>
<p>Maybe Ms. Chua just needs money now for college and she just figured out how to fan the flames of controversy all the way to the bank. Maybe her older daughter approves of her because she’s just like dear ol’ Mama. Or, she could be proud of her survival skills. Can you imagine a lunch time conversation with the girls and their peers? “My mother is so awful that she…,” “Yeah but mine made me…” and a kind of machismo settles in.</p>
<p>G
read the book, I beg you! you can do that in ahem, lunch break.
Amy would come pick D2 up for extra music lesson when school is doing “meaningless” thing, such as lunch, recess, gym, and I forget something else.
She slips out of Yale office, go get her, drop her off at the teachers’, go back to job, hour or so later, get her and bring back to school.
D1 would “run” home after school to practice piano. to that Amy said
“why did you run? you must have looked ridiculous”</p>
<p>Have you seen the movie “Spellbound”. No, not Alfred Hitchcock, but about the National Spelling Bee. Some kids just like to spell, others have waaaaay craaaaaazy parents who get over their heads in the lunacy of the competition. You will have many, many comments about the people, I guarantee!</p>
<p>It’s a fun documentary to watch. I saw it with a friend from India and he told me that a man there memorized the train schedules for the entire country - just because!</p>
<p>That’s one of my fav movie that hooked me on documentaries!!
My kid wanted the Indian boy to win. I liked squeaky tic-y little boy in the opening.
you know, NYC don’t do that. maybe doing it in somewhere I don’t know. I even saw “bee season” because I was obsessed over spelling bee awhile. like, what is the point?
and that ceremonial questioning and those white polo shirts!! sort of dog show creep fun in the way.
America , a-m-e-r-i-c-a the mystery m-y-s-t-e-l-y
BOOOOEEEEppp you are wrong!</p>
<p>The girl from DC - Ashley White - fell on hard times. She became a single, homeless mother a few years later.</p>
<p>[‘Spellbound</a>’ Star Struggles for Happier Ending (washingtonpost.com)](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13893-2004Jun3.html]'Spellbound”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13893-2004Jun3.html)</p>
<p>Then she rallied, partly inspired by her energy in the film.</p>
<p>[UPDATE:</a> Spelling Champ’s Victory - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050401796.html]UPDATE:”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/04/AR2008050401796.html)</p>
<p>It’s thought that “Akeelah and the Bee” was inspired by her story. I never saw that one, did you?</p>
<p>Its weird, spelling bees give me the creeps, but I love crosswords and scrabble. I feel like that compulsive memorization is a waste of time. But Ms. White’s story very compelling and I am glad things went well for her.</p>
<p>10 char bump</p>
<p>I will probably read the tiger mother book once it gets to the library, but meanwhile I’m reading “She’s Not There” by Jennifer Boylan, a true story of her gender change from a man to a woman. She’s an English prof at Colby college in Maine. It’s a great book, and as I’m reading it, I now want to read everything else she and her colleague, Richard Russo have written. “Getting In”, by Boylan, is a story about four high school students who go on quests to get into college and is probably my next read. That’s the problem (or good thing, depending on your point of view), it never ends!!</p>
<p>Im with this PC and don’t know how to link</p>
<p>Richard Russo
Straight Man
I picked because the cover had cute duck on red background and was good.
Colby that is… didn’t know but make sense. thanks redbug.
these “college” novels are cool, based on true stories (I bet) and can see things from faculty and/or management (sales) point of view.
If we know where all those authors were at, it might serve better “college guide” than those publications that made to promote schools with better promotional resorces, eh.</p>
<p>I shoulda posted before Gmom’s chinese eating tour.
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Undress-Temple-Heaven-Susan-Gilman/dp/0446696935/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1296577563&sr=1-1[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Undress-Temple-Heaven-Susan-Gilman/dp/0446696935/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1296577563&sr=1-1</a></p>
<p>B&D - Another great sounding book. Last Saturday my mom and I went to the library (the woman who hasn’t read a book in years) so I could check out Getting In (which by the way is hilarious so far), and they had their ongoing book sale (carts of discarded, donated books) and of course I headed straight there. Mom proceeded to tell me I didn’t need any more books, there were “piles” around my house. Told her you could never have too many books. Found one with short stories about dogs and their owners (her life revolves around her corgi) and told her she’d probably like it, I was very surprised when she bought it. She won’t read it tho, it’ll interfere with QVC!</p>
<p>QVC!!!
once our job made some stuffed thing that’s going to sell there.
I never heard of them but made it anyway as I were told.
Then just so I can be informed, boss showed me the video of the selling.
the moment I saw close-up of cherry colored pointy loooonnnggg nails fondle our sample and the voice of a woman said
" ohhhh, smooooth and soooft, the way I love it ummmmmmm"
I knew it was something we should not have ventured in…</p>
<p>BandD…Thank YOU! I needed a laught this morning more than I realized. It was that or cry…I thought…what if the Treasury department could sell on QVC…“oh look…toxic assets…soooo soft, so cuddly and cute…they never leave you, they just sit and decay in value in the corner”</p>
<p>Yep, B&D, you got it right on the money. They do that ooohhh - ahhhhh stroking thing to everything they sell. Altho she tells me she does not watch it all day, everytime I go over there, its on (sometimes with no sound) and she knows all the stroking people and says how she hates it when they do that. For her, it must be like a train wreck - you don’t want to see, but you can’t look away. She says the sound is off because she “has it on just for the background”. I say its her train wreck. But if she puts another box of Christmas musical ornaments on the table and tells me to pick 2, I think I’ll scream.</p>
<p>Halfway thru “Getting In”, good read.</p>
<p>Already in paperback!!!</p>
<p>The Other Wes Moore
missed book talk at Portland.
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Other-Wes-Moore-Name-Fates/dp/0385528205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297135842&sr=1-1[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Other-Wes-Moore-Name-Fates/dp/0385528205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297135842&sr=1-1</a></p>
<p>Just finished Getting In by James Boylan. Fun, fast read, the college interview situations were so funny.</p>
<p>just finished The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead. Best thing Ive read in years. He is brilliant. </p>
<p>Also read Freakonomics. I liked it but it made me uncomfortable. </p>
<p>I am currently reading No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality. by Judith Harris. It is a study about individuality and spends a lot of time talking about evolutionary neuroscience, but in a very very understandable way. I dont usually read non fiction, but she is my new hero (she was mentioned in Freakonomics, and I remembered an article I read about her first book, a long time ago, The Nurture Assumption, which kind of turned the community on its head, and was very well received. She is just incredibly great. She is almost entirely housebound, and has a really fine mind. </p>
<p>My H got me a kindle for Valentines, it is turning out to be way more enjoyable than I expected. You can change the font so reading glasses issues go away…</p>
<p>switters
how come you didn’t tell me you are TNA& NTA(book titles by Judith Rich Harris) enthusiast? or I never asked?
I am dreaming the day she’d get Pulitzer prize or something, while she could at least be able to come to the award ceremony in wheelchair or stretchers. she took classes on the cot carried in the classroom. I still believe it is either her deteriorating health or some jealousy that prevented her from get Harvard phD. They sort of apologized, giving award named after that evil prof.</p>
<p>I was dubious about the Nook when I got it for Xmas. But I really like some things… like I was able to download the userguide for my camera to the nook – then I had it with me when I was traveling… I can never find the dang user guide when I need it. I can also websurf on it, which was cool in the airports. I am kind of bad about ‘shopping’ for more books when I’m supposed to be at work ‘working’.
The downside is that I can’t readily pass along the books to someone else or sell them. Still, it’s much less trouble to have a library on the nook than to add more to my already overstuffed house.<br>
The Nurture Assumption… is that the thing where they were assuming that if your kid didn’t turn out right, it had something to do with how you raised him? I’ll have to google it or look it up on the Nook and see if that’s what I think it is.</p>