‘Not enough to rely on parents’

IN her memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua wrote about her “all stick and no carrot” approach to get her two daughters to practise music.

While her approach courted controversy, the results were impressive. Her older child Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, now nearly 30, performed at Carnegie Hall when she was just 14. Her younger one, Lulu, auditioned for a pre-college programme at the famed Juilliard School at the age of 11.