Amazon top-selling author Marie Claire Lim-Moore talks about her book “Don’t Forget the Soap: And Other Reminders from My Fabulous Filipina Mother” in a round-table discussion with select reporters Thursday at The Peninsula Manila in Makati City. Video by Nestor Corrales and Ryan Leagogo/INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines—If the statement “Mother knows best” rings any bell, author Marie Claire Lim-Moore would gladly bang a gong.
The Citibank executive wrote Don’t Forget the Soap: And Other Reminders from My Fabulous Filipina Mother, a book dedicated to her mom, artist Lenore RS Lim.
In her book, Moore described her mother as the Un-Tiger mom and that her mother would never push them too hard to the point that Lim would even turn off the lights when she and her brother were studying.
Moore studied at the International Baccalaureate of the United Nations International School, a well-known institution where children of expatriates studied.
“When I see them studying so much, I would turn off the light and tell them ‘you know you studied enough,’ without sleep they will be grouchy,” Lim related to select members of the press Thursday during a roundtable discussion in Makati.
The newest top-seller of shopping website Amazon said that she puts her mother “in a pedestal” since she was the sole premise of her book.
“When it comes to what defines you as a person and your time in this world, no one has a better outlook than my mother,” Moore wrote. “And for this reason I hold her in the highest regard.”
Moore, who thrived in her mother’s style of balance, said her mother would usually advise her in her studies and not to take up subjects that would put immense pressure on her.
When she took up Econometrics at Yale, her mother told her to balance the burdensome projects with Art History.
“You’re not planning to be an economist and being able to talk about the Renaissance and Neoclassicism will come in handy,” Moore wrote. “She was right again.”
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