Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

She wrote a book called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother about the strengths and limits of strict Chinese parenting.

If you read the back of your book, it explains how to be a tiger mother.

There's a long list of things you didn't allow your children to do.

They were never allowed to attend a sleepover, have a play date, be in a school play, complain about not being in a school play, watch TV or play computer games, choose their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, not be the number one student in every subject except gym and drama, play any instrument other than the piano or violin, not play the piano or violin.

Well, it sounds tongue in cheek to me, but it doesn't sound so extreme.

And you know, when I talk to a lot of immigrants or immigrants' kids, they find it hysterical. They know that it's poking fun a little bit, but it really captures some truth.

This could be revolutionary You have to change the way you think about parenting because Amy Chua ignited a firestorm by sharing the surprising details of her strict parenting methods in the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Amy Chua ignited a firestorm by sharing the surprising details of her strict parenting methods in the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

Amy Chua ignited a firestorm by sharing the surprising details of her strict parenting methods in the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

Mom, Amy Chua ignited a firestorm by sharing the surprising details of her strict parenting methods in the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

Amy Chua wrote a book called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and at one point in the book she tells her older daughter that if her piano playing isn't perfect she is going to take her stuffed animals and burn them.

She's got a couple of good books. She's like, yeah, she's awesome. I'm in love with Amy Chua. You should read whatever she writes.

Let's go back to Tiger Mom, one of my favorite books and one of my favorite people of all time, Amy Chua.

I loved it because you were getting so much shit and you were like, yeah, I don't care. This is how I feel.

I'm always like they need some time to off on weekends, but the kind of really touchy-feely school I sent my kids to actually felt like a giant play date, you know? They didn't even do like math equations. It was just like blocks and puzzles and things like that.

I need to prepare them for the future. You know, they're only going to be children a certain amount of time. I need to arm them with the skills and the confidence and the grit that they need so that when they fail, they have it in themselves to pick themselves up again and try again and again, because that's going to be life.

If a kid comes home with an A minus on a test, a Western parent will most likely praise him. A Chinese mother will gasp in horror and ask what went wrong.

If a Chinese child gets a B, which would never happen, you say there would first be a screaming, hair tearing explosion. The devastated Chinese mother would then get dozens, maybe hundreds of practice tests and work through them with her child for as long, long as it takes to get the grade up to an A.

Remember Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother? She wrote it along with some other fascinating books.

He was mentored by professor Amy Chua who wrote a book about being a tiger mom that made a lot of people angry and was Beloved by the chunk of the country who thinks the children have it too easy

Fourteen years ago, Amy Chua published a book called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. It was received less like a book and more like a nuclear bomb.

Why I will never be a tiger mom, why Amy Chua is wrong about parenting, Amy Chua's recipe for disaster, and on and on it went.

Part of it was The Wall Street Journal slapping on the headline, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.

He said, Tiger Mom book.

She wrote this book, A Tiger Mom.

And as I understand, you know, continues to be supportive of him and proud of her mentorship of him, though she has not engaged much, has not spoken about this and declined to comment for our piece.

She's known as Tiger Mom. And she's a professor at Yale at the law school and a corporate lawyer.

Her Tiger Mom book was a huge best seller, but some have called her parenting child abuse.

Amy just took an interest in me and what personal experiences had made me who I was.

She saw her success and she encouraged him to write his own book and of course she had connections.

When I read the first couple of passages he sent, I thought, Oh my god, not only does this guy have a story, but he writes with such honesty, everybody needs to read this.

And he was also mentored by Amy Chua, who is known as Tiger Mom.

She's Chinese Filipino.

Her Tiger Mom book was a huge bestseller, but some have called her parenting child abuse.

So JD met Chua. So when she was publishing her Tiger Mother book, quote, 'Amy just took an interest in me and what personal experiences had made me who I was'.

'When I read the first couple of passages he sent I thought, Oh my god, not only does this guy have a story, but he writes with such honesty. Everybody needs to read this'.