“Tiger Moms” Now Usurped by “Wolf Dads”
Corporal punishment is the unspoken dark side of Asian and Asian Pacific American parenting, and if the whirlwind created by Amy Chua’s sardonicTiger Mom memoir wasn’t enough to roil the interwebs, the much less funnyWolf Dad will.
A Chinese writer publishing a provocative essay in the English-languageDiplomat says that “Wolf Dads,” or yet another distorted form of sado-masochistic pressuring of kids to be Harvard-ready, has found its latest expression in Xiao Baiyou’s parenting manual — complete with detailed explanations of how and where to use a rattan cane on your child for