obi, if you think I was "prepared for misery to be heaped on Italians", you are mistaken. You misunderstood. As anya has said, it is not really politik on gransnet to carry grievances about one thread onto another. Let it rest there.
This article about tiger mums appears in today's Times newspaper and its author is Rosemary Bennett, as I have informed people. I have not expressed my personal opinion about the phenomenon of tiger mums so any "taking seriously" that you do or don't do is not about me or my opinion about it. You need to take up your objections with The Times.