![]() ![]() Chua wrote of how when Lulu was 4, she rejected her daughter’s homemade birthday card for looking sloppy. The girls’ childhoods included a total ban on TV-watching, play dates and sleepovers. Courtesy of the familyĬhua detailed her strict “tiger mom” parenting tactics with her two daughters, Lulu, a rebellious violin prodigy, and Lulu’s older sister, overachiever Sophia, who was a Harvard-bound high school senior when the book came out. Seven years ago, Lulu was a 14-year-old high school freshman at the Hopkins School in New Haven, Conn., when her mom, Amy Chua, published her incendiary, best-selling 2011 memoir, “ Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.” Lulu (center, at her high school graduation with mom Amy Chua and dad Jed Rubenfeld) says Harvard wasn’t so hard. “I don’t slack - and that’s part of Tiger Mom.” But I can’t just blow off a paper,” says the bubbly 22-year-old Harvard senior. “If I could be the kind of person who could let loose, I would. Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld, on the other hand, just completed a 90-page thesis on Jewish-American identity in early 20th century New York and a 10-page paper on the Shah of Iran. Some second-semester college seniors are content to phone it in. ![]()
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