"Nobody asks [us] dragon parents for advice; we’re too scary. Our grief is primal and unwieldy and embarrassing. The certainties that most parents face are irrelevant to us, and frankly, kind of silly. Our narratives are grisly, the stakes impossibly high." So writes, Emily Rapp in an Opinion piece about her child with Tay-Sacks disease.
Wilh all the fanfare about Tiger Moms -- Ms. Rapp's essay is an important glimpse of reality, far from the ivied halls of the Academe.
See Notes from a Dragon Mom.