{"id":606,"date":"2011-07-12T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/?p=606"},"modified":"2011-07-12T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T03:02:11","slug":"tiger-moms-vs-rintoo-the-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2011\/07\/tiger-moms-vs-rintoo-the-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Moms vs. Rintoo the Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all the debate over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594202842\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=anderkblog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=1594202842\">Tiger Moms<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1594202842&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/>, I found this third episode in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002HK9ILS\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=anderkblog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B002HK9ILS\">Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: Kai-Lan&#8217;s Carnival<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002HK9ILS&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> amusing and illuminating. In it, Rintoo the Tiger wants to be the &#8220;best skater in the world&#8221; but then realizes &#8220;It&#8217;s too hard&#8221; and gives up. Like a miniature Amy Chua, Kai-Lan comes to the rescue with this ancient wisdom: &#8220;When you try something new \/ and it&#8217;s really hard to do \/ Just take it slow!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only two words that this episode features: ku\u00e0i (fast) and Ji\u0101 y\u00f3u (Ol\u00e9, \u00a1ol\u00e9 ol\u00e9 ol\u00e9!). Thus, the show basically takes a position pretty much the opposite of the Tiger Mom: your kids shouldn&#8217;t be challenged too much and need constant entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>All together now: &#8220;Just take&#8230; it&#8230; slow!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all the debate over Tiger Moms, I found this third episode in Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: Kai-Lan&#8217;s Carnival amusing and illuminating. In it, Rintoo the Tiger wants to be the &#8220;best skater in the world&#8221; but then realizes &#8220;It&#8217;s too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2011\/07\/tiger-moms-vs-rintoo-the-tiger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44936],"tags":[44946,44952,44938,38],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bilingual-english-chinese","tag-dvd","tag-kail-lan","tag-product-review","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}