Are all Yale Law School professors insane parents? Any Chua's wackiness is well documented, of course. Now it turns out that Ian Ayres made his kid "publish an article in an academic peer-reviewed journal" before he'd let her get a dog. Apparently, it became a family project and all turned out okay, but still....
On top of which, what remotely normal person worries about whether his kids have the correct "intertemporal marginal rate of substitution"?
I wonder what discount rate he'd apply to the therapy bills his and Chua's kids likely will have to pay as adults.
One final note. Calvin Trillin once said of his daughters:
I stopped writing about them during their teenage years because I think the last thing teenagers need is their daddy making supposedly wry remarks about their life.
It's advice Chua and Ayres might take to heart.
