Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.