If you didn’t hear, a National cat fight broke out a few weeks ago when a Yale University Law professor by the name of Amy Chua released her memoir about her success as raising her child the “Tiger Mom” way. Well, anyone knows that criticizing mom is not a nice thing to do anyway and the media has had a field day with mom-types recently, like the Cougars, so, the sparks are flying between various groups from the Tigers to the Cougars to the Free-Rangers to the steadfast likely “Jewish, Guilty, Ambivalent, Preoccupied Western Mom” type which Ayelet Waldman wrote a great piece about in the Sunday Wall Street Journal back on January 15-16 this year. One of my friends also reminded me of the “Momma Bear Moms”. She is from the Mid-West so I think that is more like the one Waldman writes about without the injection of Jewish guilt. (more…)