Tiger parenting

"Tiger mother" redirects here. For other uses, see Tiger mother (disambiguation).

Tiger parenting is a form of strict parenting, whereby parents are highly invested in ensuring their children's success. Specifically, tiger parents push their children to attain high levels of academic achievement or success in high-status extracurricular activities such as music or sports.[1] The term "tiger mother" ("tiger mom") was brought to public attention by Yale Law School professor Amy Chua in her 2011 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

The rise of Chua's memoir brought the tiger parent phenomenon into the American mainstream during the 2010s. Chua's concept and term "tiger parent" spawned numerous caricatures while also becoming the inspiration for the 2014–2015 Singaporean TV show Tiger Mum, the 2015 mainland Chinese drama Tiger Mom, and the 2017 Hong Kong series Tiger Mom Blues. The stereotype is a Chinese mother who relentlessly drives her child to study hard, without regard for the child's social and emotional development. The notion of a "tiger parent" is analogous to other authoritarian parenting stereotypes, such as the American stage mother, the Japanese kyōiku mama, and the Jewish mother. Other similar or related terms include helicopter parent, monster parents, and Hong Kong Kids phenomenon.

  1. ^ Kim, Su Yeong (2013). "Defining Tiger Parenting in Chinese Americans". Human Development. 56 (4): 217–222. doi:10.1159/000353711. PMC 4865261. PMID 27182075.
  2. ^ Kim, S. "What is "tiger" parenting? How does it affect children?". American Psychological Association.
  3. ^ Lyu, Sung Ryung (2017). Rethinking Parenting of East Asian Immigrant Families in the United States with Asian Feminist Perspectives (PDF) (MA report). University of Texas at Austin Press. pp. iii.
  4. ^ Seal, Kathy (13 December 2010). "Asian-American Parenting and Academic Success". Pacific Standard.
  5. ^ Markus, Hazel Rose; Fu, Alyssa S. (11 April 2014). "My Mother and Me: Why Tiger Mothers Motivate Asian Americans But Not European Americans". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 40 (6): 739–749. doi:10.1177/0146167214524992. PMID 24727812. S2CID 31610977.
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  7. ^ Parker, Clifton B. (20 May 2014). "'Tiger moms' vs. Western-style mothers? Stanford researchers find different but equally effective styles". Stanford Report.