Raising Parents

Myth of the Perfect Parent

by LOUISA CH'NG


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$18.95
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Softcover
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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 9/11/2020

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5.5x8.5
Page Count : 194
ISBN : 9781543760699
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 194
ISBN : 9781543760705

About the Book

We all have our own parenting journeys - full of laughter and tears, late night snuggling and early morning trainings, exam prep and fun musicals. Along this journey, we as parents face so many questions! How do we raise our girls to be strong, guilt free women? How to raise visionary, ambitious, respectful boys? How to be a mum and still have a life? This collection of stories tries to capture perspectives from Stay at Home Mums vs. Career Mums, perspectives from the West vs the East, perspectives from Tiger Mums vs the more chilled Mums. Women who have scaled the heights in the academia and the corporate worlds only to face the challenge of putting a baby to sleep and teaching an 8 year-old Singapore maths. Ranging in age from early thirties to mid-fifties and scattered across the globe from Singapore to London to Silicon Valley and to Queenstown; these mums reflect a spectrum of different upbringing - from Malaysian Peranakan roots to British boarding schools; with voices from Chinese, French, American and Russian families. The result is an honest and heartfelt glimpse of parenthood today. *** Special section included on the parenting journeys of dads


About the Author

Louisa Ch’ng started off her career as a management consultant and discovered her passion in education after having her firstborn. Holding a law degree from Cambridge University and a MBA from Wharton Business School, she definitely loves her books and believes in researching her parenting questions through the library, internet, coffee chats & drinks with her friends. Though Malaysian at heart, she lives in Singapore with her long-suffering but supportive husband and three children.